[ noun ] a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo <noun.location>
Seaport \Sea"port`\ (s[=e]"p[=o]rt`), n. A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.
'With Genoa's traditions as a seaport, the original idea was to create a big event concentrating on communications, especially on a cultural level,' Mr Roberto recalls.
Most of the difficulty in getting grain from a seaport to a hungry refugee in the drought-stricken bush is due to guerrilla attacks on the transportation system.
Long Beach has turned from tourism to become a top-ranked seaport, oil producer and business center.
Hard on their heels came the American Navy, and the base and seaport town that grew around it attracted a drifting population of itinerants, adventurers and sea-going desperados.
But this seaport in Shandong Province enforces strict building design standards, zoning regulations and landscaping laws.
Pusan in the south east is the country's biggest seaport.
In this house, I would weigh 300 pounds." Accompanied by his wife, Barbara, Bush went to Walesa's home in this seaport city in a gesture of respect for the trade union leader who helped spark a political revolution in Poland.
Officials announced the lifting of seaport blockades, the opening of the airport and the daytime opening of all crossings between Christian east Beirut and Moslem west Beirut.
A small farmer and a seaport merchant could not be represented by the same spokesman, they said.
The 617-foot Bermuda Star's hull was holed in two places when it slammed into submerged rocks about two miles from this village seaport on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod, Coast Guard officials said.
The seaport is the key to the sudden presence of Gen. Hopkins's 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.