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Port Royal

name

Etymology

From port + royal. * (Jamaica): Calque of Spanish Puerto Real * (Annapolis, South Carolina): Calque of French Port-Royal * (Virginia): From the name of a local landowning family, the Roy family.

  1. derived from rēgālis
  2. derived from roial
  3. inherited from royal
  4. compounded as port royal — “port + royal”

Definitions

  1. A town and former capital of Jamaica.

  2. A location in Canada

    A location in Canada:

  3. A location in the United States

    A location in the United States:

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA