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US
/ˈpɔɹtsməθ/
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NOUN
- a port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base
- a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean
- a port city in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk; naval base; shipyards
How To Use Portsmouth In A Sentence
- Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
- With some of the lashings and supports removed after the long sea journey, the Swan is due to leave Portsmouth at around 11 am and will sail into the Solent, anchoring around half a mile offshore in the Stokes Bay area.
- The design was quite fashionable at the time and variations were common in Boston, Salem, and Portsmouth.
- Portsmouth were in complete control as their numerical advantage allowed them to run rings around Reading. The Sun
- BAE Systems at Scotstoun, the shipbuilders, were subcontracted to build new bridge wings and sponsons, which were delivered to Portsmouth by road on the Friday before Christmas.
- “I take the liberty to enclose a copy of the amendments recommended by this Convention,” he wrote Washington from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on June 22, 1788; “they were drawn up more with a view of softening & conciliating the adoption to some who were moderate in their opposition than from an expectation that they would ever be engrafted in the Constitution.” Ratification
- Experts who have been diving to the wreck off Portsmouth for the last month have excavated a five-metre-long piece of wood which they believe is the front stem of the ship's keel.
- PORTSMOUTH A man has been arrested and charged with making and setting off a bottle bomb in a Portsmouth home yesterday. The Shad Plank
- 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
- They travelled to Portsmouth, where they embarked on the battle cruiser HMS Renown.
