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Portsmouth   /pˈɔrtsməθ/   Listen
Portsmouth

noun
1.
A port city in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk; naval base; shipyards.
2.
A port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean.
3.
A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base.  Synonym: Pompey.






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"Portsmouth" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have had the part in the first place instead of when the tour's half over. They are at Southampton this week. He wants me to join them there and go on to Portsmouth ...
— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... seizure of Fort William and Mary, near Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, by the provincial militia, in which they found many barrels of gunpowder, several ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... grasping his hand, answered with words every one of which palsied the heart of Thaddeus. "He is coming home. He is now at Portsmouth. O, Constantine! I am not yet so debased as to live with him when my ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... of suburbs and some substitution of new suburban sites for old city sites—as at Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol, Huntingdon, etc. It is what you find all over Europe. But there was no real disturbance of this scheme of towns until the industrial revolution of modern times came to diminish the almost immemorial importance of the Roman cities and to supplant ...
— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc

... Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dover, Falmouth, Felixstowe, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Hull, Leith, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Peterhead, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Scapa Flow, Southampton, ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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