OUTPORT

outport

(noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

outport (plural outports)

A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port.

(Canada) In Newfoundland and Labrador any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.

Source: Wiktionary


Out"port`, n.

Definition: A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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