Pori

American  

[pawr-ee, paw-ree] / ˈpɔr i, ˈpɔ ri /

noun

1. a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.

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Pori British  

/ ˈpɔri /

noun

1. Swedish name: Björneborg.  a port in SW Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Pop: 76 189 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

Yyteri beach, near the city of Pori, is a 5km stretch of powder-soft sand backed by dunes and pine forests.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2016

Hæc terra antiquitus fuit valde magna, et fuit regis Pori, qui cum rege Alexandro prælium magnum commisit.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard

The conjecture of Spratt, that Pergamos was near Pyrgos Pori is only a conjecture, Pyrgos being too common a name for any strongly situated village or ruin to have any significance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

Lutchi returned to Olelpanti with Kopus, who was called also Pori Kipanamas, which means a man wearing a headband of fresh oak leaves with two green acorns thrust in on each side.

From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Curtin, Jeremiah

Their first care was to send for the master’s mate, who had escaped to the island of Pori, and had been left behind when the whale-boat came down to the rock.

From Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. by Anonymous