homeport

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verb

home·​port ˈhōm-ˌpȯrt How to pronounce homeport (audio)
homeported; homeporting; homeports

transitive verb

: to provide with or assign to a home port

home port

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noun

: the port from which a ship hails or from which it is documented

Examples of homeport in a Sentence

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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 See All Example Sentences for homeport

Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1940, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1794, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of homeport was in 1794

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“Homeport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeport. Accessed 17 Mar. 2025.

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