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seaport

[ see-pawrt, -pohrt ]

noun

  1. a port or harbor on or accessible to a seacoast and providing accommodation for seagoing vessels.
  2. a town or city at such a place.


seaport

/ ˈsiːˌpɔːt /

noun

  1. a port or harbour accessible to seagoing vessels
  2. a town or city located at such a place
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of seaport1

First recorded in 1590–1600; sea + port 1
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Example Sentences

The pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses in the global supply chain, causing a backup of cargo ships in seaports around the world.

According to a report in FreightWaves, a trade publication, the containers will be brought to the pop-up ports, some 60 miles inland, by rail, where they’ll be picked up by trucks, reducing the traffic around the seaport.

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As a result, the backlogs and delays that have plagued seaports all year are now hitting airports.

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Chaos and congestion are shifting from seaports to airports as retailers are racing to move products from factories in east Asia to shoppers in the US and Europe before the holidays.

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The former Portuguese colony and seaport had become a special district of China a few years earlier.

Delicate melodies do not represent this tough industrial seaport.

She had to cross the Atlantic in that year, and stopped on some business in the harbor of Portsmouth, an English seaport.

Goods sell at Chihuahua at about 200 per cent, on the prices of our Atlantic seaport towns.

According to one of their own traditions Eridu, originally a seaport, was their racial cradle.

At last she said, 'Give us some sea songs; she comes from a seaport town, and will maybe like them better.'

On April 22, the bishop, with one companion, left the seaport for his first journey in the land of his adoption.

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