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PORT-AU-PRINCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Port-au-Prince mean?
• PORT-AU-PRINCE (noun)
The noun PORT-AU-PRINCE has 1 sense:
1. the capital and largest city of Haiti
Familiarity information: PORT-AU-PRINCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of Haiti
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Haitian capital; Port-au-Prince
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Port-au-Prince" is a part of...):
Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)
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