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seaport|ˈsiːpɔət|
[port n.1]
A harbour or port on the sea-coast; a town or city on such a harbour. = port n.1 1 and 2.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 12 It hes thir tounes Kircoubrie, Wigtoune, and the quhyt Case, al the thrie gude seyportes. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 388 We shall pass by the Sea-Ports, having mention'd them in the precedent Chapter. 1735Berkeley Querist §266 Wks. 1871 III. 378 The sea-ports of Galway, Limerick, Cork. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 335 Bristol, then the first English seaport. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §3 (1882) 184 The great merchant city..sank..into a petty seaport.
b. attrib., esp. in seaport town (cf. port-town 2).
1705Proclam. 18 Jan. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4090/1 Until they Arrive at some Sea Port-Town. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxii, Portsmouth is a seaport town. 1909Edin. Rev. Oct. 391 Apollo meets the Seaman at a seaport tavern. |