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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Example Sentences

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

“Miguel Street” is a collection of linked stories set on a street in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, during the 1940s.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

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