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seaport

seaport noun: a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.

Noun

seaport (plural seaports)

  1. A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
    • For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213

seaport meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

seaport in Tamil

துறைமுகப் பட்டினம்

seaport in Urdu

بندر, بندرگاہ

seaport in Bengali

সমুদ্রবন্দর

seaport in Kannada

ರೇವು ಪಟ್ಟಣ, ಬಂದರು
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seaport in Vietnamese
hải cảng

Examples of seaport in a sentence

  • Seaman, sea gauge, sea monster, sea horse, sea level, seaworthy, seaport, seaboard, etc.
  • Kaohsiung is the second largest city in Taiwan and has the biggest seaport.
  • Wuchi, on the west-central coast near Taichung, was named as the site for Taiwan’s third major international seaport.

All 11 example sentences with seaport

Forms of seaport

pluralseaports

Plural of seaport: seaports

Origin of seaport

From sea + port.

Questions about seaport

What does seaport mean?
Seaport means a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
What is seaport in Tamil?
Seaport in Tamil is துறைமுகப் பட்டினம். See Seaport meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is seaport?
Seaport is a noun.
What is the plural of seaport?
The plural of seaport is seaports.

Words near seaport in the dictionary

  1. seaplane tender
  2. seaplane tenders
  3. seaplanes
  4. seapoose
  5. seapooses
  6. seaport
  7. seaports
  8. seapower
  9. seapoy
  10. seapoys
  11. seapunk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seaport (page history and authors); seaport (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seaport (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seaport (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seaport (Kannada 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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