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Definitions for Porto
ˈpɔr tʊpor·to

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Porto, Oportonoun

    port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

Wikipedia

  1. Porto

    Porto or Oporto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu] (listen)) is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Oporto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Oporto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Oporto is one of the oldest European centres, and its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar". The historic area is also a National Monument of Portugal. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic-Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name Portugal, based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese, the name of the city includes a definite article: o Porto ("the port" or "the harbor"), which is where its English name "Oporto" comes from.Port wine, one of Portugal's most famous exports, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport, and export of fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Oporto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency. Oporto is on the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago.

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  1. porto

    1. Porto, also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal, known for its stately bridges and port wine production. 2. Porto can also refer to Port wine, a Portuguese fortified wine produced with distilled grape spirits exclusively in the Douro Valley in the northern provinces of Portugal. 3. In Italian, 'porto' translates to 'I bring' or 'harbor' depending on the context. The specific definition will depend on the context in which the term is used.

Wikidata

  1. Porto

    Porto, also known as Oporto in English, is the second-largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon, and one of the major urban areas in Southern Europe and the capital of the second major great urban area in Portugal. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,584 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes. The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 1.3 million in an area of 389 km², making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. The Porto Metropolitan Area includes approximately 1.7 million people,. It is recognized as a Gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group, being one of five cities on the Iberian Peninsula with global city status,. Located along the Douro river estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and registered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin for the name "Portugal", based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese the name of the city is spelled with a definite article as "o Porto". Consequently, its English name evolved from a misinterpretation of the oral pronunciation and referred to as "Oporto" in modern literature and by many speakers.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. porto

    A seaport town of South America, on the north coast of the Isthmus of Darien.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PORTO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Porto is ranked #9234 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Porto surname appeared 3,526 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Porto.

    72.9% or 2,572 total occurrences were White.
    23.4% or 826 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 64 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.9% or 35 total occurrences were Black.
    0.6% or 21 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.2% or 8 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Porto in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Porto in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Porto in a Sentence

  1. President Barack Obama:

    As a husband and as a father, I cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the Weinstein and Lo Porto port families are enduring today ... I know that there is nothing that I can ever say or do to ease the heartache.

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