: the port from which a ship hails or from which it is documented
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Karla Cripps, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Royal Caribbean International will homeport a ship in San Diego for the first time.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The ship, a 663-foot-long bulk carrier called the Manitoulin, had gotten stuck Wednesday morning about a mile off the shore of Buffalo, after delivering a shipment of wheat and attempting to return to its home port in Sarnia, Ontario, on Lake Huron.
—David Andreatta, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Round-trip journeys will embark from Singapore, making the Disney Adventure the cruise line’s first ship to homeport in Asia.
—Karla Cripps, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Royal Caribbean International will homeport a ship in San Diego for the first time.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
In addition to the deployment of the third F-35B squadron, a laser-armed American destroyer, USS Preble, changed its home port to Japan last October.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
The ship, a 663-foot-long bulk carrier called the Manitoulin, had gotten stuck Wednesday morning about a mile off the shore of Buffalo, after delivering a shipment of wheat and attempting to return to its home port in Sarnia, Ontario, on Lake Huron.
—David Andreatta, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Homeport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeport. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.
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