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Port Isabel

Port Isabel proper noun: a city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.

Proper noun

Port Isabel

  1. A city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.
    • Gamboa, 52, initially was held at Texas’s Webb county detention center before being transferred to another facility in the state in Port Isabel.2025 November 4, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state”, in The Guardian

Origin of Port Isabel

From port + Isabel. From Spanish Isabel (“Elizabeth”). Calque of Spanish Puerto Isabella, from puerto + Isabella, from Queen Isabella of Spain, the first queen of United Spain (Isabella I of Castile)

Questions about Port Isabel

What does Port Isabel mean?
Port Isabel means a city in Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States.
What part of speech is Port Isabel?
Port Isabel is a proper noun.

Words near Port Isabel in the dictionary

  1. Port Hope Simpson
  2. Port Hueneme
  3. Port Huon
  4. Port Huron
  5. Port Isaac
  6. Port Isabel
  7. Port Jackson
  8. Port Jackson Pidgin English
  9. Port Jackson pine
  10. Port Jackson shark
  11. Port Jefferson

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