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harbormaster en · NOUN

Etymology

From harbor + master.

Meanings

1. (US) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
   • The harbormaster met them with a group of men armed with swords and crossbows. Cedhunt identified them as a mercantile mission from Albion, and Alexsay, the harbormaster, escorted them to Nikhol’s zamok, a sprawling two-storied building much larger than any squarr’s bighouse Barigrange had seen, sitting well up a slope of tastefully landscaped grounds overlooking the sea. 1988 February, Charles Fontenay, “Fredeya”, in Robert Adams, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, Patricia Crippen Adams, editors, Barbarians II (Demons and Sorcerers), New York, N.Y.: Signet, →ISBN, page 185:

Forms

Translations (32)

fr capitaine de port (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · da havnefoged (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · ota لیمان رئیسی (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · ca capità de port (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · fi satamapäällikkö (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · is hafnarmeistari (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · id syahbandar (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · cy porthfeistr (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · da havnechef (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · de Hafenkapitän (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · is hafnarstjóri (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · pt capitão do porto (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · nl havenkapitein (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · fr officier de port (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · el λιμενάρχης (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · cy harbwrfeistr (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · ca capitana de port (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · ro căpitan de port (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · sv hamnkapten (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · nl havenmeester (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · is hafnarfógeti (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · io portuo-oficisto (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · pl kapitan portu (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · da havnekaptajn (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · grc λιμενάρχης (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · no havnefogd (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · fi satamakapteeni (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · de Hafenmeister (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · io portuo-oficiro (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · da havnemester (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · tr liman reisi (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port) · is hafnarkapteinn (official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port)