port of call

English

Noun

port of call (plural ports of call)

1. (nautical) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies
2. (figuratively) A place visited.
   • 2002, Phil Cousineau, Robert A Johnson, Coincidence Or Destiny?: Stories of Synchronicity That Illuminate Our Lives:

     My first port of call was the home of an old friend of my mother's, an American woman who'd married a French man.

Derived terms

• first port of call

Translations

any port being visited by a ship

• Dutch: aanloophaven (nl) f
• Estonian: vahesadam
• Finnish: määräsatama
• French: escale (fr) f
• Hebrew: נְמַל פְּקִידָה (he) m (nemal pkida)
• Ido: eskalo (io)
• Italian: scalo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anløpshavn m or f

• Polish: port pośredni m