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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.

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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)

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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

His first win as test captain came at Port-of-Spain when India reached 406-4 in a historic chase.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 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

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

But scoreless draws with Guatemala and El Salvador had the Americans third in the five-team table heading into the final game in Port of Spain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

The USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, is scheduled to dock in Port of Spain from Sunday until Thursday while U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

And in March 1958, he made 189 in the fifth Test in Port of Spain, sharing a partnership of 154 with brother Hanif, to set up Pakistan's first win in the West Indies.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

Antonee Robinson opened the scoring for the US in the 25th minute before 23-year-old Dest was sent off 14 minutes later in Port of Spain.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

Nowhere in Port of Spain will you see such human beings as in certain streets of London, Liverpool, and Glasgow.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper