homeport

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noun

The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).

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Meanings

nounhomeport (plural homeports)

plural homeports · alternative home port

  1. The port where a vessel is based (not necessarily the one where it is registered).
verbhomeport (third-person singular simple present homeports, present participle homeporting, simple past and past participle homeported)

present singular third person homeports · participle present homeporting · participle past homeported · past homeported · alternative home port

  1. To assign a vessel a port to act as its home.
    1 more example

    The good news from the Ad Hoc Committee for a Safe Boston Harbor is the Navy has decided not to homeport the Iowa Battleship Task Force, complete with sea-launch cruise nukes, in Boston Harbor. The bad news from the Committee is the Navy has offered Boston two frigates armed with tactical nuclear weapons as a "booby prize."

    1983 August 20, Sue Hyde, “Boston Harbor Escapes Big Guns”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 2

Origin

From home + port.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

homeport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeport

MLA

“homeport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeport. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “homeport,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/homeport.

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