Difference between Seaport and Harbor

What is the difference between Seaport and Harbor?

Seaport as a noun is a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo while Harbor as a noun is a sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.

Seaport

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a town or harbour with facilities for seagoing ships to dock and take on or discharge cargo

Harbor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.Any place of shelter.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To provide a harbor or safe place for.To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

Example sentence: Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

We hope you now know whether to use Seaport or Harbor in your sentence.

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