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Porthole Moderate

Porthole has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a window in a ship or airplane

2

an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

3

A gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannon are fired.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
window opening

Origin

The word comes from combining "port," meaning a harbor entrance, with "hole." It originally referred to an opening in the side of a ship's hull that allowed access to the outside.

Rhyming Words
ole nole vole tole iole sole mole hole kole dole bole cole role pole azole ecole whole drole dhole opole
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