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seaport

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seaport [′sē‚pȯrt]
(civil engineering)
A harbor or town that has facilities for seagoing ships and is active in marine activities.


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In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
He thought the rural Featherstones very simple absurd people, and they in their turn regarded his "bringing up" in a seaport town as an exaggeration of the monstrosity that their brother Peter, and still more Peter's property, should have had such belongings.
Wellington is trim and neat and English; it reminds you of a seaport town on the South Coast.
 
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