HOME PORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does home port mean? 

• HOME PORT (noun)
  The noun HOME PORT has 1 sense:

1. the port from which a ship originates of where it is registered

  Familiarity information: HOME PORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOME PORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The port from which a ship originates of where it is registered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("home port" is a kind of...):

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

 Context examples 

In June of ’95, only one of their line had reached a home port.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)