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colport

/kɒlˈpɔː(ɹ)t/

colport verb: to work as a colporteur.

Verb

colport (third-person singular simple present colports, present participle colporting, simple past and past participle colported)

  1. To work as a colporteur

colport meaning in Bengali

colport in Bengali

কলপোর্টার, ফেরিওয়ালা হিসেবে কাজ করা

Forms of colport

third-person singular presentcolports
present participlecolporting
past participlecolported
pastcolported

Origin of colport

Back-formation from colporteur.

Questions about colport

What does colport mean?
Colport means to work as a colporteur.
What is colport in Bengali?
Colport in Bengali is কলপোর্টার, ফেরিওয়ালা হিসেবে কাজ করা. See Colport meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is colport?
Colport is a verb.
How do you pronounce colport?
Colport is pronounced /kɒlˈpɔː(ɹ)t/.
What is the past tense of colport?
The past tense of colport is colported.

Words near colport in the dictionary

  1. colporrhagia
  2. colporrhagias
  3. colporrhaphies
  4. colporrhaphy
  5. colporrhexis
  6. colport
  7. colportage
  8. colportages
  9. colported
  10. colporter
  11. colporters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colport (page history and authors); colport (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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