Word Meanings - PORT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORT)

• Bearing
• Behavior
• deportment
• manner
• aspect
• carriage
• mien
• demeanour
• port
• conduct
• inclination
• position
• appearance
• direction
• course
• Harbor
• Haven
• rest
• refuge
• shelter
• anchorage
• home
• asylum

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PORT)

• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger

Related words: (words related to PORT)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• REFUGE
  1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18. 2.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
• APPOSITION
  The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.