PORT OF SPAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Port of Spain mean? 

• PORT OF SPAIN (noun)
  The noun PORT OF SPAIN has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad

  Familiarity information: PORT OF SPAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORT OF SPAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Trinidad and Tobago on the west coast of the island of Trinidad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Trinidad and Tobago; Port-of-Spain; Port of Spain

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Port of Spain" is a part of...):

Trinidad (an island in West Indies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela)

 Context examples 

I've seen his top-sails with these eyes, off Trinidad, and the cowardly son of a rum-puncheon that I sailed with put back—put back, sir, into Port of Spain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)