outport

[ out-pawrt, -pohrt ]

noun

1. a secondary seaport close to a larger one but beyond its corporate limits or jurisdiction.
2. Canadian. an isolated fishing village, especially on the Newfoundland coast.

outport

/ ˈaʊtˌpɔːt /

noun

1. a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port
2. one of the many isolated fishing villages located in the bays and other indentations of the Newfoundland coast

Word History and Origins

Origin of outport¹

First recorded in 1635–45; out- + port ¹

Example Sentences

In Newfoundland, fishing villages are known as outports, and the outport where we were heading was Summerville, off the Indian Arm of Bonavista Bay.

From Washington Post

Yolande Pottie-Sherman, a researcher and geography professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, said resettlement poses important questions: should remote communities and outport culture be kept alive, and at what – and whose – expense?

From The Guardian

He ended the four-hour cruise at his own cabin built in the resettled outport of English Harbour, a creekside clearing of fallen sheds fronting a white-capped bay ringed in silent forests.

From New York Times

If you were to ask a fisherman of some remote outport what his flour was made of he would stare at you and be mute.

From Project Gutenberg

The government also planned the construction of a road, which would make communication easier between the northern outports and St. John's.

From Project Gutenberg