Southport

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Southport

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From south + port.

proper noun

  1. A coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England; formerly Lancashire (OS grid ref SD3317). Violent demonstrations have spread from Southport to London, Hartlepool, Manchester and Aldershot after the stabbing atrocity at a children’s holiday club on Monday.
  2. A community in Caplin Cove-Southport, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  3. A census-designated place in the town of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
  4. An unincorporated community in Bay County, Florida.
  5. A city in Marion County, Indiana. A couple of broad ideas they determined included converting Indianapolis into a single, countywide government led by a strong mayor, and, for political purposes, omitting the school districts and the cities of Beech Grove, Lawrence, Southport and Speedway from any consolidation efforts.
  6. An unincorporated community in Washington Township, Owen County, Indiana.
  7. A town mostly on Southport Island in Lincoln County, Maine, named after the English town.
  8. A town and census-designated place therein, in Chemung County, New York.
  9. A city in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Former name: Smithville.
  10. A ghost town in Coos County, Oregon.
  11. A neighbourhood of Renton, King County, Washington.
  12. A coastal village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.
  13. A rural locality, formerly the site of a town, in Litchfield municipality, Northern Territory.
  14. A coastal town and suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland.
  15. A township in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania. Former name: Hythe

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: liverpool, hull, brighton, westport, rockingham, whitby, plumpton, plymouth, horsley, coates, lindley, seabrook, whitfield, chester, buxton, everton

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"Southport." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/southport. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"Southport." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/southport.

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@misc{southport_2026,
  title = {Southport},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/southport},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}