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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

ports

/pɔɹts/

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What does ports mean?

noun

  1. plural of port

proper noun

  1. A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France.
  2. A comarca in the Valencian Community in Spain

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/pɔɹts/

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This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all the rest of his enemy’s ships into his ports.
Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #829
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I myself have all the other, And the very ports they blow, All the quarters that they know I’ the shipman’s card.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
So, without even waiting to declare war, she sent a fleet to the China Sea and bombarded some of her enemy's ports.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
Flat-bottomed boats were building in all the ports of Normandy and Brittany, calculated to transport an army of a hundred thousand men.-C.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610