Port Arthur
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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.
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
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Port` Ar′thur
n.
1. a seaport in SE Texas, on Sabine Lake. 59,610.
2. See under Thunder Bay.
3. Lüshun.
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| Noun | 1. |  Port Arthur - a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of LudaCathay, 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 |
| 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 |
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