port

1. 1.

   a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country

   Broadergeographic point

   Narrowerentrepotfree porthome portoutportport of entryseaporttreaty portDurresAlgiersAnnaba
2. 2.

   sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal

   Synonymsport wine

   Broaderfortified wine
3. 3.

   an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

   Synonymsembrasureporthole

   Broaderopening

   ship

4. 4.

   the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

   Synonymslarboard

   Broaderside
5. 5.

   (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)

   Synonymsinterface

   Broadercomputer circuit

   Narrowerparallel interfaceserial portsmall computer system interface

   computer science

1. 1.

   located on the left side of a ship or aircraft

   Synonymslarboard

   Similarleft

Other forms of port

plural

ports·

past tense

ported·

present participle

porting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about port

What does port mean?

port means "put or turn on the left side, of a ship". That is the primary sense; the word has 14 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in port?

port has 1 syllable: port. In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹt/.

What is another word for port?

Close synonyms include port wine, embrasure, porthole, larboard, interface. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is port a common word?

port is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with port?

14 words rhyme with port. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.