SEAPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seaport mean? 

• SEAPORT (noun)
  The noun SEAPORT has 1 sense:

1. a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

  Familiarity information: SEAPORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

harbor; harbour; haven; seaport

Hypernyms ("seaport" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "seaport"):

dock; dockage; docking facility (landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out)

landing; landing place (structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods)

anchorage; anchorage ground (place for vessels to anchor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seaport"):

coaling station (a seaport where ships can take on supplies of coal)

port of call (any port where a ship stops except its home port)

Instance hyponyms:

Caesarea (an ancient seaport in northwestern Israel; an important Roman city in ancient Palestine)

Pearl Harbor (a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941)

Boston Harbor (the seaport at Boston)

Holonyms ("seaport" is a part of...):

seafront (the waterfront of a seaside town)

 Context examples 

We have the news at every seaport already, and a reward will be offered before evening.

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

On the 21st of April, 1708, we sailed into the river of Clumegnig, which is a seaport town, at the south-east point of Luggnagg.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

What do you deduce from that? They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship.

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

From bye-path, from woodland clearing, or from winding moor-side track these little rivulets of steel united in the larger roads to form a broader stream, growing ever fuller and larger as it approached the nearest or most commodious seaport.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And he could not help but contrast it with the weak pipings and shrill quaverings of factory girls, ill-nourished and untrained, and with the raucous shriekings from gin-cracked throats of the women of the seaport towns.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There is not one seaport in the whole kingdom: and those parts of the coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and the sea generally so rough, that there is no venturing with the smallest of their boats; so that these people are wholly excluded from any commerce with the rest of the world.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)