ports
- 1Plural of port.
The merchant fleet called at several Mediterranean ports during the voyage.
Modern laptops often include USB-C ports alongside older connectors.
Note
One spelling serves as the plural for nearly every countable port: harbors, the cities built around them, sweep rowers who pull on the port side, and openings cut in a ship's hull for boarding or for cannon. The direction itself has no plural. The left-hand side of a vessel is simply port, so a helmsman turns to port, never to ports. In historical Scottish use, ports could also mean a town's gates.
ports is a form of port
port, noun: A place on a coast, river, or lake where ships dock to load and unload, or the town or city that has such a harbor; also an official point of entry to a country. Full entry
- Forms
- portports plural
- Spelling
- port → ports: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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