Meanings
plural outports
- A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
Outport or provincial contacts like those of Cogan, Vassal, Bidgood, or Samuel Cole were exceptions. To a remarkable extent the first exchanges of goods were carried on between London and Boston. In fact, the bulk of the traffic originated in a few streets of the English capital.
1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 36 - NewfoundlandLabradorAny city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*pértus
- Proto-Italic*portus
- Latinportus
- Old Englishport
- Englishport
- Englishoutport
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 外港
- 外港 (wàigǎng)secondary port
Finnish ulkosatama
- ulkosatamasecondary port
Irish athphort
- athphortsecondary port
Polish awanport, przedporcie
- awanportsecondary port
- przedporciesecondary port
- przedportsecondary port
Swedish uthamn
- uthamnsecondary port
Cite this entry
outport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outport
“outport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outport. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outport,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outport.
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