Portland

[ pawrt-luhnd, pohrt- ]

noun

1. a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers.
2. a seaport in SW Maine, on Casco Bay.
3. a town in S Texas.

Portland

¹

/ ˈpɔːtlənd /

noun

1. Portland, 3rd Duke of17381809MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister 3rd Duke of. title of William Henry Cavendish Bentinck. 1738–1809, British statesman; prime minister (1783; 1807–09); father of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck

Portland

²

/ ˈpɔːtlənd /

noun

1. Isle of Portland
   Isle of Portland a rugged limestone peninsula in SW England, in Dorset, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus and by Chesil Bank: the lighthouse of Portland Bill lies at the S tip; famous for the quarrying of Portland stone, a fine building material
2. an inland port in NW Oregon, on the Willamette River: the largest city in the state; shipbuilding and chemical industries. Pop: 538 544 (2003 est)
3. a port in SW Maine, on Casco Bay: the largest city in the state; settled by the English in 1632, destroyed successively by French, Indian, and British attacks, and rebuilt; capital of Maine (1820–32). Pop: 63 635 (2003 est)

Portland

1. Two major cities in the United States: the largest city in Oregon and the largest city in Maine .

Example Sentences

Next up for the Wizards is a four-game road trip out West, where they will face Portland, both Los Angeles teams and a return game at Denver in a six-day span.

From Washington Post

If you’re headed to ski-area RV lots in the Pacific Northwest, NW Adventure Rentals has winter-ready rigs from Seattle and Portland.

From Outside Online

In 2019, C40, a network of 97 cities focused on climate action, asked Raworth to create reports on three of its members—Amsterdam, Philadelphia and Portland—showing how far they were from living inside the doughnut.

From Time

A few miles away, Portland’s Bull Run Watershed is surrounded by untouched forests, which are off-limits to the public to protect water quality.

From ProPublica

Now imagine a city—like Portland, Oregon—that decides it has to ban police from doing that.

From MIT Technology Review

Schedules work out and we just have them come out to Portland.

From The Daily Beast

And now Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are all suing Uber for refusing to play by their old regulatory playbooks.

From The Daily Beast

Electric Swamp Blues How can you possibly find authentic swamp blues in Portland, Oregon?

From The Daily Beast

So the following year dozens of Santas, in full red and white trim, boarded a plane to Portland.

From The Daily Beast

"We will continue to operate in Portland," Uber spokeswoman Eva Behrend told The Oregonian.

From The Daily Beast

An address was presented requesting him not to grant to Portland an extensive territory in North Wales.

From Project Gutenberg

Portland was chosen for this important and delicate mission; and the choice was eminently judicious.

From Project Gutenberg

Portland, though strictly honest, was covetous; Albemarle was generous.

From Project Gutenberg

But, though Portland was an unreasonable and querulous friend, he was a most faithful and zealous minister.

From Project Gutenberg

Portland, with good natural abilities and great expertness in business, was no scholar.

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