Meanings
- The largest city and state capital of Rivers State, Nigeria.
The Floodes’ house was one of the many colonial-style buildings on the Port Harcourt waterfront, where most of the wealthy expatriate oil workers lived.
2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 1201 more example
Tamunowari Tetenta, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, says he has attempted to register for his NIN on nine different occasions in Port Harcourt, a city southeast of Lagos.
2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2021
Origin
Named after British politician Lewis Harcourt.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Russian Порт-Ха́ркорт
- Порт-Ха́ркорт (Port-Xárkort)city
Cite this entry
Port Harcourt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Harcourt
“Port Harcourt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Harcourt. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Port Harcourt,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Harcourt.
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