Portland Definition–noun | 1. | a seaport in NW Oregon, at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. 366,383. | | 2. | a seaport in SW Maine, on Casco Bay. 61,572. | | 3. | a town in S Texas. 12,023. | |
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town and port, southern Victoria, Australia. It lies on Portland Bay, an inlet of the Indian Ocean. The bay was first visited by Europeans in 1800 and named for the duke of Portland by James Grant, a ...
Portland
city, seat (1760) of Cumberland county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The state's largest city, it is the hub of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the cities of South Portland and Westbrook ...
Portland
city, seat (1854) of Multnomah county, northwestern Oregon, U.S. The state's largest city, it lies just south of Vancouver, Washington, on the Willamette River near its confluence with the Columbia ...
Portland Inlet
arm of the Pacific Ocean, indenting western British Columbia, Canada; it is an extension of Dixon Entrance and Chatham Sound, north of Prince Rupert. Named in 1793 by the English navigator George ...
portland cement
binding material in the form of a finely ground powder, usually gray, that is manufactured by burning and grinding a mixture of limestone and clay or limestone and shale. The inventor Joseph Aspdin, ...
Portland Vase
Roman vase (1st century AD) of dark blue glass decorated with white figures, the finest surviving Roman example of cameo glass. Originally owned by the Barberini family (and sometimes called the ...
Portland, Isle of
craggy peninsula of the English Channel coast, in the county of Dorset, England. Its greatest length is 4 miles (6 km) and it has a width of 1.75 miles. The peninsula is connected to the mainland by ...
Portland State University
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Portland, Oregon, U.S. It is part of the Oregon University System. The university includes colleges of liberal arts and sciences, urban and ...
Weymouth and Portland
borough (district), administrative and historic county of Dorset, southern England, on the English Channel. Bronze Age weapons and Roman interments have been found on the site. Weymouth's first ...
Portland, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of,
British prime minister from April 2 to Dec. 19, 1783, and from March 31, 1807, to Oct. 4, 1809; on both occasions he was merely the nominal head of a government controlled by stronger political ...
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