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outport en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English port English outport From out- + port.

Meanings

1. A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
   • Outport or provincial contacts like those of Cogan, Vassal, Bidgood, or Samuel Cole were exceptions. To a remarkable extent the first exchanges of goods were carried on between London and Boston. In fact, the bulk of the traffic originated in a few streets of the English capital. 1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 36:
2. (Newfoundland, qualifier:Labrador) Any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.

Forms

Relateds

outlying · outpost

Translations (7)

pl awanport (secondary port) · ga athphort (secondary port) · pl przedport (secondary port) · pl przedporcie (secondary port) · cmn 外港 (secondary port) · sv uthamn (secondary port) · fi ulkosatama (secondary port)