seaport

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ port.

Noun

seaport (plural seaports)

1. A town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo.
   • 1956 April, H. A. Vallance, “To Oslo via Stavanger”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:

     For many years, Oslo had no railway communication with Bergen and Stavanger, the principal seaports on the south-west coast.

Translations

town or harbour for seagoing ships

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海港 (zh) (hǎigǎng)

• Dutch: zeehaven (nl) f
• Esperanto: marhaveno
• Finnish: merisatama
• German: Seehafen (de) m, Hafenstadt (de) f, (inland) Binnenseehafen m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἐπίνειον n (epíneion)

• Hebrew: עִיר נָמֵל (he) f (ir namel)
• Icelandic: sjóhöfn f
• Ido: portuo (io)
• Ingrian: meriportta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: havneby (no) m

  Nynorsk: hamneby m

• Portuguese: porto marítimo m
• Russian: морско́й порт m (morskój port), порто́вый го́род m (portóvyj górod) (city/town with a port)
• Scottish Gaelic: longphort m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: morska luka f

• Vietnamese: hải cảng (vi)
• Volapük: melapof (vo), pofazif

Anagrams

• Esparto, Pastore, Tropeas, to spare, teraops, Pateros, Proteas, proteas, Portsea, esparto