outport

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. Any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's. Newfoundland

词形变化

outports plural

词汇关系

相关词
outlying outpost

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Indo-European *pértusder.
Proto-Italic *portus
Latin portusbor.
Old English port
English port
English outport
From out- + port.
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