OPORTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oporto mean? 

• OPORTO (noun)
  The noun OPORTO has 1 sense:

1. port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

  Familiarity information: OPORTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPORTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Oporto; Porto

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 ("Oporto" is a part of...):

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

 Context examples 

From that night nothing has been seen of the three murderers by the police, and it is surmised at Scotland Yard that they were among the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Norah Creina, which was lost some years ago with all hands upon the Portuguese coast, some leagues to the north of Oporto.

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