Port

Quick meaning: Port is a noun meaning A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

Meaning

A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

More Meanings

1. A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
2. (rowing) A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
3. (nautical) Of or relating to port, the left-hand side of a vessel when facing the bow.
4. (nautical, transitive, chiefly imperative) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
5. (nautical) To dock at a port.
6. (now Scotland, historical) An entryway or gate.
7. (nautical, aviation, 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.

Example Sentences

Port your helm!

on the port side

peering in maps for ports and piers and roads

Each eight has four ports and four starboards.

Word Forms

• ports
• porting
• ported

Synonyms for port

Depending on context, synonyms include larboard, backboard, left, Porto, harbour, haven.

Antonyms for port

Common opposites include starboard, right.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include porthole, larboard, embrasure, left, interface, seaport.

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