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Port·land (pôrt′lənd)

  1. Etymology: after the city in Maine

    city & port in NW Oreg., near the confluence of the Columbia & Willamette rivers: pop. 529,000

  2. Etymology: after town and island in England

    seaport in SW Me., on the Atlantic: pop. 64,000

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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