Port Arthur

Port Arthur

1. A city of extreme southeast Texas on Sabine Lake near the Louisiana border. It is a major deep-water port connected by channel with the Gulf of Mexico. Population: 55,700.

2. See Lüshun.

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Port Arthur

n

1. (Placename) a former penal settlement (1833-70) in Australia, on the S coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania

2. (Placename) the former name of Lüshun

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Port Arthur - a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda Lushun Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world Luda, Luta - an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun
	2.	Port Arthur - a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese Manchuria - a region in northeastern China