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  • Port-of-Spain
    Port-of-Spain
    noun
    a seaport on NW Trinidad, in the SE West Indies: the national capital of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Port of Spain
    Port of Spain
    noun
    the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, on the W coast of Trinidad. Pop: 56 000 (2005 est)

Port-of-Spain

American  
[pawrt-uhv-speyn, pohrt-] / ˈpɔrt əvˈspeɪn, ˈpoʊrt- /

noun

  1. a seaport on NW Trinidad, in the SE West Indies: the national capital of Trinidad and Tobago.


Port of Spain British  

noun

  1. the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, on the W coast of Trinidad. Pop: 56 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Trinidad won 2-1 on Monday night in Port-of-Spain, overcoming a deficit by scoring twice after Dest’s 39th-minute ejection left the U.S. a man short.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

Mr. Lamming later worked at a boarding school in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, teaching English to Hispanic students, before moving to England in 1950, sailing on the same ship as Trinidadian writer Samuel Selvon.

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2022

Right back DeAndre Yedlin was the only player from the starting lineup in Port-of-Spain to open against the third-ranked Portuguese, who also used a mostly young lineup.

From Washington Times • Nov. 14, 2017

In the 1950s, he studied in New York and founded a theater in Trinidad's Port-of-Spain, a Caribbean capital he mentioned with great warmth during his Nobel lecture in 1992.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2017

Rounded Cape Horn, the coast of Brazil, stopped for carnival in Port-of-Spain.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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