outport

American  

[out-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈaʊtˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

1. a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.

2. Canadian. an isolated fishing village, especially on the Newfoundland coast.

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outport British  

/ ˈaʊtˌpɔːt /

noun

1. a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port

2. one of the many isolated fishing villages located in the bays and other indentations of the Newfoundland coast

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Etymology

Origin of outport

First recorded in 1635–45; out- + port ¹

Example Sentences

In Newfoundland, fishing villages are known as outports, and the outport where we were heading was Summerville, off the Indian Arm of Bonavista Bay.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

From the nearby historical and picturesque outport of Trinity, we joined about six others embarking on a Zodiac inflatable boat piloted by a professional whale watcher.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022

Yolande Pottie-Sherman, a researcher and geography professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, said resettlement poses important questions: should remote communities and outport culture be kept alive, and at what – and whose – expense?

From The Guardian • Oct. 29, 2019

He ended the four-hour cruise at his own cabin built in the resettled outport of English Harbour, a creekside clearing of fallen sheds fronting a white-capped bay ringed in silent forests.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2014

Did an outport merchant want credit in any large way, it was from the opposite chair––with the light falling full in his face through the broad window––that he put the case to Sir Archibald.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman