Meanings
nounrocketport (plural rocketports)
plural rocketports
- literatureA spaceport.
This time, he knew for whom he was asking: they waited—as they've always waited, at rocketports, pneumatique stations, in delousing sheds and hand-out queues; in the greasy front offices of courts and refugee camps and detention bureaus—tired and grimy and stoned.
1974, M[ichael] John Harrison, The Centauri Device, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 178
Origin
- Old Italianrocchetto
- Italianrocchetta
- Englishrocket
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*pértus
- Proto-Italic*portus
- Latinportus
- Old Englishport
- Englishport
- Englishrocketport
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APA
rocketport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rocketport
MLA
“rocketport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rocketport. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rocketport,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rocketport.
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