: the port from which a ship hails or from which it is documented
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Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
Silversea is the only cruise line that homeports in Puerto Williams.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 26 Mar. 2025
Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Within a dozen years, the ports became central to U.S. Navy operations, building ships through World War II, and making Long Beach a sailors’ town, the home port for the Pacific Fleet.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
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Verb
Most Americans will have to take a long flight to experience the 6,000-passenger Disney Adventure, which will be the cruise line’s first ship to homeport in Asia.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
Silversea is the only cruise line that homeports in Puerto Williams.
—Fran Golden, AFAR Media, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
On Friday, the Liaoning transited the Miyako Strait—a key chokepoint in Japan's Ryukyu Islands—before entering the East China Sea that same day, apparently en route to its home port of Qingdao.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Within a dozen years, the ports became central to U.S. Navy operations, building ships through World War II, and making Long Beach a sailors’ town, the home port for the Pacific Fleet.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025
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“Homeport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homeport. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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