Port Isabel

proper noun

A city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.

OriginSpanish Isabel →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.

    Gamboa, 52, initially was held at Texas’s Webb county detention center before being transferred to another facility in the state in Port Isabel.

    2025 November 4, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state”, in The Guardian

Origin

  1. SpanishPuerto Isabella
  2. SpanishIsabel“Elizabeth”
  3. EnglishPort Isabel

From port + Isabel. From Spanish Isabel (“Elizabeth”). Calque of Spanish Puerto Isabella, from puerto + Isabella, from Queen Isabella of Spain, the first queen of United Spain (Isabella I of Castile)

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Translations

Spanish Puerto Isabel, Port Isabel
  • Puerto IsabelPort Isabel, Cameron, Texas, USA
  • Port IsabelPort Isabel, Cameron, Texas, USA
Cite this entry
APA

Port Isabel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Isabel

MLA

“Port Isabel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Isabel. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Port Isabel,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Port%20Isabel.

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