seaport
pronunciation
How to pronounce seaport in British English:
UK [ˈsi:pɔ:t]
How to pronounce seaport in American English:
US [ˈsipɔrt]
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- Noun:
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
Word Origin
- seaport (n.)
- 1590s, from sea + port (n.1).
Example
- 1. Our staff left the building and ran toward the south street seaport .
- 2. Witnesses said they heard explosions and saw smoke rising from tripoli 's seaport from late thursday into early friday .
- 3. Some chinese journalist has visited an inflatable sex doll factory in ningbo , a seaport city in zhejiang province northeast china .
- 4. Credited as the first philosopher of ancient greece and therefore the founder of western philosophy thales hailed from the ionian seaport of miletus now in modern turkey .
- 5. The study corrected for other factors that might explain higher growth , like the presence of a university or seaport .