port
a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,328 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,447 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal also: port wine
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through also: embrasure, porthole
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose also: larboard
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) also: interface
verb
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship port the helm
- bring to port the captain ported the ship at night
- land at or reach a port The ship finally ported
port in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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At St. Jean Pied de Port he was more at home.
The Money Master, Complete · Gilbert Parker · Chapter 1
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Port, Sherry, and Madeira were his only tipple--the rest, he would assert, were only fit for finger-glasses!
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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Either the precious cargo must be brought safely into port or the derelict must be sunk and the fairway cleared.
Pearl of Pearl Island · John Oxenham · Chapter 1
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The crew were then all made prisoners, and taken to a port of Arabia, from whence they gradually dispersed and escaped.
The pirates own book · Charles Ellms · Chapter 1
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Brigs that figs for market gather, Homeward-bound upon the stretch, Encounter oft this uglier weather Yet in end their port they fetch.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1