CALL AT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call at mean? 

• CALL AT (verb)
  The verb CALL AT has 1 sense:

1. enter a harbor

  Familiarity information: CALL AT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL AT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enter a harbor

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

call at; out in

Context example:

the ship called in Athens

Hypernyms (to "call at" is one way to...):

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Mina is dressing, and I shall call at the hotel in a few minutes and bring him over....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I have been making the tour of the park,” he replied, “as I generally do every year, and intend to close it with a call at the Parsonage. Are you going much farther?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have been out to Streatham since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Will call at 6:30—C.A.M.,” I read.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think we should call at Scotland Yard for Inspector Gregson, and go straight out to Beckenham.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, thank you, except call at the office, if you'll be so kind, dear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I suppose you will not like to call at the Great House before they have been to see you?"

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Pray explain everything to his satisfaction; or, if he still harbours any doubt, a line from himself to me, or a call at Putney when next in town, might set all to rights.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Her call at the school was generally made in the course of her morning ride.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Soon afterwards Mr. Elton quitted them, and she could not but do him the justice of feeling that there was a great deal of sentiment in his manner of naming Harriet at parting; in the tone of his voice while assuring her that he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report; and he sighed and smiled himself off in a way that left the balance of approbation much in his favour.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)