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Definition 2025

port_city

port city

English

Noun

port city ‎(plural port cities)

A city built around a port, for its defence, to provide infrastructural support, or as parasitic urban sprawl.

Translations

city built around a port

Armenian: նավահանգիստ (hy) ‎(navahangist)
Catalan: port (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 港市 (zh) ‎(gǎngshì)
Czech: přístav (cs) m, přístavní město n
Dutch: havenstad (nl) f
Finnish: satamakaupunki (fi), satama (fi)
French: port (fr) m, ville portuaire f
Galician: porto (gl) m
German: Hafenstadt (de) f
Greek: λιμάνι (el) n ‎(limáni)
Hebrew: עִיר נָמֵל (he) f
Hungarian: kikötőváros (hu)
Icelandic: hafnarborg f
Ido: portuo (io)

Italian: città portuale f
Latvian: ostas pilsēta f
Lithuanian: uostamiestis m
Polish: miasto portowe n
Portuguese: porto (pt) m
Romanian: port (ro) n
Russian: порт (ru) m ‎(port), порто́вый го́род m ‎(portóvyj górod)
Scottish Gaelic: port m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: лука f

Roman: luka (sh) f
Spanish: puerto (es) m
Swahili: bandari (sw)
Swedish: hamnstad (sv) c
Turkish: liman kenti, şehri (tr)
Yiddish: האַוונשטאָט f ‎(havnshtot)