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UK
/sˈiːpɔːt/
]
[ US /ˈsiˌpɔɹt/ ]
[ US /ˈsiˌpɔɹt/ ]
NOUN
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
How To Use seaport In A Sentence
- These amateur officers then gathered a labor force of sturdy Yankee farmers, seamen and stevedores from the Rhode Island seaport and drew others from the poorer classes of the City of Providence.
- The Coast Guard patrolled waterways and seaports with more vessels.
- Anzac had anchored in the ancient seaport of Alexandria after a surprisingly rough transit through the Mediterranean Sea.
- Seaports asked for three times the amount of money that the Congress appropriated for port security.
- It served as the seaport of the inland town of Philippi, which was about 10 miles away.
- The biennial event was established in 2002 to celebrate the seaport city's historical relationship with iron and steel.
- St. Nicholas was an early Christian Bishop of Patara of the Lycian seaport (in present-day Turkey) in the 4th century A. D.
- The next raid of the adventurers was at a place called Arica, a small seaport town at the output of a beautiful and fertile valley. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III
- Castle Mount, as I recall it, lies some thousands of miles distant from the nearest seaport. KING OF DREAMS
- Second, how useful would Arret be as a seaport if its harbor were filled with sunken ships?