seaport

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noun

A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

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Meanings

nounseaport (plural seaports)

plural seaports

  1. A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

    For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.

    1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

Similar
havenharborharbour
Broader
port
Also see
harborharbourhaven

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From sea + port.

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Translations

Ancient Greek ἐπίνειον
  • ἐπίνειον (epíneion)town or harbour for seagoing ships
Chinese Mandarin 海港
  • 海港 (hǎigǎng)town or harbour for seagoing ships
Dutch zeehaven
  • zeehaventown or harbour for seagoing ships
Esperanto marhaveno
  • marhavenotown or harbour for seagoing ships
Finnish merisatama
  • merisatamatown or harbour for seagoing ships
German Seehafen, Hafenstadt
  • Seehafentown or harbour for seagoing ships
  • Hafenstadttown or harbour for seagoing ships
  • Binnenseehafentown or harbour for seagoing ships
Hebrew עִיר נָמֵל
  • עִיר נָמֵל (ir namel)town or harbour for seagoing ships
Icelandic sjóhöfn
  • sjóhöfntown or harbour for seagoing ships
Norwegian Bokmål havneby
  • havnebytown or harbour for seagoing ships
Polish port morski, miasto portowe
  • port morskitown or harbour for seagoing ships
  • miasto portowetown or harbour for seagoing ships
Portuguese porto marítimo
  • porto marítimotown or harbour for seagoing ships
Russian морско́й порт, порто́вый го́род
  • морско́й порт (morskój port)town or harbour for seagoing ships
  • порто́вый го́род (portóvyj górod)town or harbour for seagoing ships
Scottish Gaelic longphort
  • longphorttown or harbour for seagoing ships
Vietnamese hải cảng
  • hải cảngtown or harbour for seagoing ships

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

seaport. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seaport

MLA

“seaport.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seaport. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seaport,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seaport.

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