port
A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
Other meanings
A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
A kind of
- side
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "portus" (port, harbour).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “port” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.