Port-of-Spain
[ pawrt-uhv-speyn, pohrt- ]
/ ˈpɔrt əvˈspeɪn, ˈpoʊrt- /
noun
a seaport on NW Trinidad, in the SE West Indies: the national capital of Trinidad and Tobago.
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How to use Port-of-Spain in a sentence
His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.
The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
Houston has the largest medical center in the world, and the largest export port in the entire country.
We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
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In Spain he was regarded as the right arm of the ultra-clericals and a possible supporter of Carlism.
As Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
However, on reaching Spain, the magic of the Emperor's personality soon restored the vigour and prestige of the French arms.
General Lachambre, as the hero of Cavite, followed to receive the applause which was everywhere showered upon him in Spain.
His enemies persistently insinuated that he was really returning to Spain to support the clericals actively.
British Dictionary definitions for Port-of-Spain
noun
the capital and chief port of Trinidad and Tobago, on the W coast of Trinidad. Pop: 56 000 (2005 est)
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