port

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
2. (countable, uncountable) A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
3. (uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
4. (countable, uncountable) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.

Adj

Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.

Verb

1. (imperative, transitive) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
2. To dock at a port.

Verb

1. (transitive) To carry, bear, bring, or transport. See porter.
2. (transitive) To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lies diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
3. (transitive) To adapt, modify, or recode to work on a different platform.
4. (ergative) To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one service provider to another.
5. (US) To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.

Opposite of

starboard

Synonyms

harbour

harbor

haven

larboard

seaport

dock

anchorage

porthole

harbor

port wine

wharf

harbour

landing place

hole

🕳️

port side

embrasure

gate

interface

vent

airport

🛬

shelter

aperture

quay

carry

docks

bus station

disturb

dispose

dockside

drome

bring forward

displace

dislodge

behavior

alienate

airfield

dislocate

defer

bearing

form

crenel

ford

foramen

conduct

barrier

alien

👽

inlet

flying field

interstice

floodgate

Translations

port

porto

puerto

Hafen

haven

λιμάνι

port

porto

λιμένας

Backbord

bâbord

portus

Portwein

poort

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɔɹt/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English: port

In summary

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

Sentences

A new luxury hotel will also be connected to this port .