What does seaport mean?
Word: Seaport
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Seaport means a town or city on the coast where ships come in to load and unload goods and passengers.
Synonyms: port
How do you spell seaport?
Syllables: sea - port
Tricky part: It is one closed word, with no space or hyphen in the middle; many students split it in two.
Watch out for: seeport, seaprot
Memory tip: Airport and seaport are built the same way: one word, no gap.
Seaport in a sentence
Example 1: Mumbai grew into a great city partly because it is a natural seaport.
Example 2: Ships from many countries unload cars at the seaport of Chennai.
Example 3: Our ferry left the seaport early in the morning.
Fun Fact
Lothal in Gujarat had a dockyard more than 4,000 years ago, one of the oldest known docks in the world.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Which compound word in this list is spelt correctly?
a) lighthous
b) seaport
c) sailbote
d) waterfrunt
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b) seaport. Lighthouse ends in a silent e, sailboat has oa, and waterfront has an o.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word seaport as used in the sentence:
Kochi has been a busy seaport for hundreds of years.
a) harbour
b) river
c) beach
d) island
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a) harbour. A harbour is a sheltered place where ships come in, which every seaport has.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
s_ap_rt
a) e, a
b) e, u
c) i, o
d) e, o
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d) e, o. The first part is the salt water, spelt with ea, and the second part has an o.
Spell-o-Spell
Three words in the list are spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of the misspelt word.
1. voyaje 2. vessel 3. anchor 4. seaport
a) a coastal town where ships load and unload
b) a long trip by sea or in space
c) a heavy hook that holds a ship in place
d) a large boat or ship
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b) a long trip by sea or in space. Voyage ends in age, with a g, not a j; seaport, vessel and anchor are right.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. An important seaport on India's east coast is ____.
a) Visakhapatnam
b) Nagpur
c) Jaipur
d) Bhopal
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a) Visakhapatnam
2. Airport is to planes as seaport is to ____.
a) buses
b) lorries
c) trains
d) ships
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d) ships
