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Definition of Seaport
1. Noun. A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
Terms within: Dock, Dockage, Docking Facility, Landing, Landing Place, Anchorage, Anchorage Ground
Group relationships: Seafront
Generic synonyms: Port
Specialized synonyms: Coaling Station, Port Of Call
Specialized synonyms: Caesarea, Pearl Harbor, Boston Harbor
Definition of Seaport
1. Noun. A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Seaport
1. a harbor or town accessible to seagoing ships [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaport
Literary usage of Seaport
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port of Hamburg by Edwin Jones Clapp (1911)
"INTRODUCTION THE NATURE OF A GREAT seaport A GREAT seaport is a country's ...
In a seaport are knit together the bonds that unite the nations in a network ..."
2. The Port of Hamburg by Edwin Jones Clapp (1911)
"INTRODUCTION THE NATURE OF A GREAT seaport A GREAT seaport is a country's right
hand extended to foreign lands, offering them our products and requesting ..."
3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"1 In the earlier part of the Middle Ages we meet with many seaport towns which
had, in the language of later law, an Admiralty jurisdiction. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A project _ which he had long urged was to make Paris a seaport by means of a
ship-canal ... He wrote 'Paris as a seaport'; 'Notes on Soundings of the Sea'; ..."
5. Brookes's General Gazetteer Improved: Or, A New and Compendious Geographical ...by Richard Brookes by Richard Brookes (1812)
"a seaport of Fez, in Africa, 120 ! civil wars, and its trade is ... 52 16 N.
Tent'y, a seaport in Pembrokeshire, with a market on Wednesday and Sa- sea, ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"THE OLD seaport. BY DELTA. 1. WHEN winds were wailing round me, And Day, with
closing eye, ... Not far remote, there lay An old dim smoky seaport, 4. ..."
7. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"Strabo distinguishes the two, Pausanias identifies them, conceiving no other town
to have ever existed except the seaport (x, 37, 4). Mannert (Geogr. ..."
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