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PORTSMOUTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base
Synonyms:
Pompey; Portsmouth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Portsmouth" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Portsmouth" is a part of...):
Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A port city in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk; naval base; shipyards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Portsmouth" is a part of...):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Va.; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Context examples:
We set sail from Portsmouth upon the 7th day of September, 1710; on the 14th we met with Captain Pocock, of Bristol, at Teneriffe, who was going to the bay of Campechy to cut logwood.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The next step was to communicate with Portsmouth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He stood his chance for the rest; wrote up for leave of absence, but without waiting the return, travelled night and day till he got to Portsmouth, rowed off to the Grappler that instant, and never left the poor fellow for a week.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Each pigeon-hole had its label, and his eyes as he glanced along them read a long series of such titles as Fords, Harbour-defences, Aeroplanes, Ireland, Egypt, Portsmouth forts, The Channel, Rosythe, and a score of others.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Through Hawke Stone and Benbow Stone we came down to my father, Anson Stone, who in his turn christened me Rodney, at the parish church of St. Thomas at Portsmouth in the year of grace 1786.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Edmund's plans were affected by this Portsmouth journey, this absence of Fanny's.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was in my eleventh year when we moved from Portsmouth to Friar’s Oak, a little Sussex village to the north of Brighton, which was recommended to us by my uncle, Sir Charles Tregellis, one of whose grand friends, Lord Avon, had had his seat near there.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nothing of all that she had been used to think of as the proof of importance, or the employment of wealth, had brought him to Portsmouth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
It was just after we had moved from Portsmouth to Friar’s Oak, whither he came for a week before he set sail with Admiral Jervis to help him to turn his name into Lord St. Vincent.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am considering your sister's health, said he, addressing himself to Susan, which I think the confinement of Portsmouth unfavourable to.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
