angiport

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noun

A narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounangiport (plural angiports)

plural angiports

  1. obsoleteA narrow road passing between two houses or a row of houses, or an alley leading to a single house.

    The unsavoury mass of slums packed away in the lower levels, with their coking labyrinth of lanes, 'angiports', and culs-de-sac, continued, with no general attempt to modify or purify, until the great Neronian conflagation swept an area at last for reconstruction.

    1894, The Edinburgh Review, volume 179, page 87
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    "Here we are," said the artist of coffins, the last master of mortal ceremonies; "we are now near home, keep close to me through this passage, or you may miss me in the dark—we turn, mind you, to the left, along the river:" and darting down the “angiport,” he led the way to his retired abode.

    1841, Charles Whitehead, “The Coffin-Maker of Drogheda”, in The Library of Fiction: Or, Family Story-teller, page 246

Origin

  1. Latinangiportus
  2. Englishangiport

From the Latin angiportus.

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APA

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

MLA

“angiport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/angiport. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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