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  1. noun A place on a waterway with facilities for loading and unloading ships.
  2. noun A city or town on a waterway with such facilities.
  3. noun The waterfront district of a city.
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  • We wait as the music begins to blare, and as it does, it feels like the port is about to erupt in euphoria. —  TravelDailyNews.com
  • Example, changing code for a port program: Assume that the Erlang process controlling the port is a gen_server portc and that the port is opened in the callback function init (...) - > ..., —  Hiveminds Magazine
  • The view of Athens as we left the port was amazing. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Coal exports from Australia's Newcastle, the world's biggest export harbor for the fuel, climbed 22 percent last week while the number of ships waiting outside the port was the highest in a year. —  Energy Tribune
  • If the port is a general commercial port, it shall be understood that the articles were going for civil use although occasionally a frigate or other ship of war may be constructed in that port. —  The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Latin portus; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Probably from port side, from port1.
  3. Middle English, gate, porthole, from Old French porte, gate, from Latin porta; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.
  4. After Oporto .
  5. French porter, to carry, from Old French, from Latin portāre; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. N., Middle English porte, from Old French port, from porter, to carry.

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  1. from Middle English port, poort, from Anglo-Saxon port, a port, harbor, also a town, city, = Middle High German G. port = Old French and F. port = Provencal port = Spanish puerto = Portuguese Italian porto, a port, harbor, = Welsh porth = Gaelic Irish port, a port, ferry, from Latin portus (portu-), a harbor, haven, fig. a place of refuge, Late Latin also a warehouse. Old Latin also a house; orig. ‘entrance’; akin to porta, a city gate, a gate, door (see port); with formative -tu, from √ por, go (cf. Greek πόρος, a way), = English fare: see fare. Cf. port. Hence ult. port.
  2. from port, n.
  3. from Middle English port, porte, from Anglo-Saxon port = Old Saxon porta = OFries. porte = Dutch poort = Middle Low German porte = Old High German porta, phorta, Middle High German porte, borte, phorte, German pforte = Icelandic Swedish Danish port = Old French porte, French porte = Spanish puerta, Old Spanish porta = Portuguese Italian porta, a gate, entrance, = Welsh porth, a gate, gateway, = Irish port, a door, from Latin porta, a city gate, a gate, door, entrance; akin to portus, a harbor, orig. ‘entrance’; with formative -ta, from √ por, go, = English fare: see port. Cf. port. Hence ult. porter, and in comp. portcullis, etc.
  4. from French porter = Spanish portar = Italian portare, from Latin portare, carry, bear, bring, convey, fig. convey, import, betoken; akin to porta, gate, portus, harbor, from √ por, go, = English fare: see port, port, fare. Hence ult. (from Latin portare) in comp. comport, deport, disport (and sport), export, import, purport, report, support, transport, etc., important, etc., portass, porter. etc.
  5. from Middle English port, poort, from Old French port, French port = Spanish Portuguese porte = Italian porto, carriage, demeanor; from the verb: see port v.
  6. Origin uncertain.
  7. See port, v.
  8. = French porto; abbreviation of port wine, properly Port wine, Port being an English form of Portuguese Oporto or Porto (orig. o porto, ‘the port’ or ‘harbor’), a city in Portugal, whence the wine was orig. shipped: o, the, from Latin ille, that; porto, from Latin portus, harbor: see port.
  9. from Gaelic Irish port, a tune.
 

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