home port
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4.1
- noun
- /hoʊm pɔrt/
- Specialized
:
puerto de origen
- Fishing vessels go on ten-day trips from their home ports, but at the end of each day, deliver their catch to a storage center.
Examples
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No one pretends that a ship comes from the home port painted on its stern, or that it has ever been anywhere near.
Academic text (2016) -
Eventually, less than 20 albacore vessels chose to make Honolulu their home port.
Academic text (1993) -
"How long will it take you to make your home port?"
Fiction book (1999) -
Perhaps you are having trouble because of your home port, Grant.
Blog text (19) -
We left our home port of Portsmouth, NH about a week and a half ago.
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All aku boats presently have their home ports on Oahu.
Academic text (1993) -
So on the way back to our home port in Long Beach, California, we decided to take a shortcut through the gyre, which few seafarers ever cross.
Academic text (2003) -
Charles M. Gaouette is being sent back to the USS John C. Stennis' home port at Bremerton, Wash., in what the Navy called a temporary reassignment.
Blog text (30) -
The continuity of this commitment was made strikingly clear last September when the huge American aircraft carrier Independence, with 5,300 personnel, steamed into its new home port 25 miles south of Tokyo (replacing the aged Midway), as though the world had not changed in twenty years.
Academic text (1991) -
The USS Constitution is docked in its home port of Boston, ready for visitors.
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the port that serves as a ship's base or port of registry' is directly and compositionally derived from 'home' (base/place of origin) + 'port' (harbor). This is a straightforward noun + noun compound following common cross‑linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Home port comes from the simple picture of a ship always returning to the same home port, the place where it is based and where trips begin and end. So, 'home port' means the ship's main base or the port where it is registered.