Seaport
['siːpɔːt] or ['sipɔrt]
Definition
(noun.) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
Typist: Xavier--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
Edited by Craig
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of visiting a seaport, denotes that you will have opportunities of traveling and acquiring knowledge, but there will be some who will object to your anticipated tours.
Typist: Moira
Examples
- But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such is the sleepy nature of the population Palestine's only good seaport has now and always had. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We have the news at every seaport already, and a reward will be offered before evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Forming an opinion of our people and their manners by what is seen among the inhabitants of the seaports, is judging from an improper sample. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are all seaports. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Edited by Guthrie