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portside

portside adjective: on the port (left) side of a ship.

Adjective

portside (not comparable)

  1. On the port (left) side of a ship.
    • All was quiet for several minutes until the fog broke and a large oak tree passed outside my portside window.2007 July 10, James Hickey, “Airline War Stories, Expert Division”, in New York Times
    • The portside lounge in shades of tan and yellow seated sixty-six passengers while a TV Lounge on the starboard side could accommodate forty-eight passengers in a predominantly blue space.2010, Justin Merrigan, Ian Collard, Holyhead to Ireland: Stena and Its Welsh Heritage, →ISBN

Noun

portside (plural portsides)

  1. An area alongside a port.
  2. The port (left) side of a boat.
    • The net is taken in by repeatedly strapping off lengths of the net that are hauled forward alternately from the portside and starboardside; the pile of netting in the foreground is made from successive bights of the net resulting from this procedure.1967, Ernest D. McRae, The West German research vessel W̲a̲l̲t̲h̲e̲r̲ H̲e̲r̲w̲i̲g̲
    • It is obvious that the reasonable principles do not require a merchant ship to bear a green light at her starboardside and a red light at her portside, but if each State were to regulate the colour and the place of the lights with unlimited sovereignty, and without regard for the uniformity, the...2012, D. Josephus Jitta, The Renovation of International Law, →ISBN

Adverb

portside (comparative more portside, superlative most portside)

  1. Toward or on the port side.
    • Ship was to dock portside to at pier 1 but ended up starboardside as docking became seriously complicated1959, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Civil functions, Department of the Army, page 2614

portside meaning in Tamil

portside in Tamil

படகின் இடப்பக்கம்

Forms of portside

Noun
pluralportsides
Adverb
comparativemore portside
superlativemost portside

Origin of portside

From port + -side.

Words formed from portside

Questions about portside

What does portside mean?
Portside means on the port (left) side of a ship.
What is portside in Tamil?
Portside in Tamil is படகின் இடப்பக்கம். See Portside meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is portside?
Portside can be an adjective, a noun or an adverb.

Words near portside in the dictionary

  1. portscanners
  2. portscanning
  3. portscans
  4. portscullis
  5. Portsea
  6. portside
  7. portsider
  8. portsiders
  9. portsides
  10. portsill
  11. portsills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portside (page history and authors); portside (Tamil 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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