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PRONUNCIATION OF PORT ELIZABETH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORT ELIZABETH

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Port Elizabeth is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PORT ELIZABETH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth

Port Elizabeth or The Bay is one of the largest cities in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, 770 km east of Cape Town. The city, often shortened to PE and nicknamed "The Friendly City" or "The Windy City", stretches for 16 km along Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa. It now forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality which has a population of over 1.3 million.

Definition of Port Elizabeth in the English dictionary

The definition of Port Elizabeth in the dictionary is a port in S South Africa, on Algoa Bay: motor-vehicle manufacture, fruit canning; resort. Pop: 237 502.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORT ELIZABETH

Port Adelaide
Port Arthur
port authorities
port authority
Port Blair
Port du Salut
port dues
Port Harcourt
Port Jackson
Port Jackson wattle
Port Jackson willow
Port Louis
Port Lyautey
Port Moresby
Port Nicholson
port of call
port of entry
Port of Spain
Port Phillip
Port Phillip Bay

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORT ELIZABETH

back teeth
beth
brandreth
dragon´s teeth
Elisabeth
Elizabeth
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kick in the teeth
Lambeth
Macbeth
meth
Morpeth
Nazareth
ninetieth
Saint Elisabeth
Saint Elizabeth
Seth
shibboleth
teeth
twentieth

Synonyms and antonyms of Port Elizabeth in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Port Elizabeth» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORT ELIZABETH

Find out the translation of Port Elizabeth to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

伊丽莎白港
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Port Elizabeth
570 millions of speakers

English

Port Elizabeth
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पोर्ट एलिजाबेथ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بورت اليزابيث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Порт-Элизабет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

port Elizabeth
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পোর্ট এলিজাবেথ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Port Elizabeth
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Port Elizabeth
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Port Elizabeth
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポートエリザベス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포트 엘리자베스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Port Elizabeth
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

port Elizabeth
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர்ட் எலிசபெத்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोर्ट एलिझाबेथ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Port Elizabeth
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Port Elizabeth
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Port Elizabeth
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

порт - Елізабет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Port Elizabeth
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Πορτ Ελίζαμπεθ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Port Elizabeth
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Port Elizabeth
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Port Elizabeth
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Port Elizabeth

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORT ELIZABETH»

The term «Port Elizabeth» is quite widely used and occupies the 32.442 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORT ELIZABETH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Port Elizabeth

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORT ELIZABETH»

Discover the use of Port Elizabeth in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Port Elizabeth and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A History of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa ...
Hidden from urban history by the twin shadows of marginalisation in the city and distance from the economic heartlands of the country, New Brighton's past is excavated here by one of South Africa's foremost historians.
Gary F. Baines, 2002
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Report of the Select Committee on the Worcester, Malmesbury, ...
Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Select Committee on the Worcester, Malmesbury, and Port Elizabeth Railway Bills. Thursday, 19th June, 1862. PRESENT; II THE COLONIAL SECRETARY (Chairman), Mr. Ziervogel, Mr. Mundy, Mr. Munnik, .
Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Select Committee on the Worcester, Malmesbury, and Port Elizabeth Railway Bills, 1862
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South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland
Intercape also has two daily Garden Route services linking Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (R270, 12 hours). Greyhound stops in Port Elizabeth daily on the journey between Durban (R325, 15 hours) and Cape Town (R270, 12 hours). The Baz ...
Kate Armstrong, 2006
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Ghosts of South Africa
Port Elizabeth is known as the Friendly City, but there are skeletons in its closet. The need for a port in the Eastern Cape became more pressing with each eastward push of the Cape frontier. In August 1799, during the first British occupation of ...
Pat Hopkins, 2006
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South Africa Lesotho and Swaziland
Port Elizabeth Opera House (%041-586 3177; White's Rd) Port Elizabeth's opera house is the oldest in South Africa, with a beautiful 19th- century interior. It shows a lively programme of concerts, ballets, plays and jazz recitals – drop into the ...
James Bainbridge, 2010
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Jazz, Blues & Swing: Six Decades of Music in South Africa
Dudley Tito Dudley grew up in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, in the fifties and learnt to play the pennywhistle before moving on to the tenor saxophone. He was a member of the Junior Jazz Band, led by Mike Ngxokolo and, in the seventies, ...
‎2007
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The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule
Call it what you will, it is an innocuous, ugly old office block in downtown Port Elizabeth, on the southeastern coast of South Africa. Opposite the railway station, the pavement in front is crowded with immigrants from other African countries, ...
Ksenija Bilbija, 2005
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The Caribbean
Although you'll find much of the accommodation concentrated around Port Elizabeth and Friendship Bay, there's also plenty throughout the island. Crescent Beach Inn Crescent Beach, near Industry Bay ® 784/458-3400. Situated in the ...
‎2002
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The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960-1970
The Eastern Cape MK operatives were more active in Port Elizabeth than in any other region. Their willingness to abandon the non-violent struggle, and the numbers that followed that path, can be explained partly by the impact of the ...
South African Democracy Education Trust, 2004
10
Frommer's South Africa
Undiscovered. Wilderness: The. Eastern. Cape. 7 1 PORT ELIZABETH 763km ( 473 miles) E of Cape. The country's second-largest province has a sun-drenched coastline that stretches for 800km (496 miles), from the lush Garden Route to ...
Pippa de Bruyn, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORT ELIZABETH»

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Live ammo fired at Port Elizabeth protesters - reporter
Port Elizabeth - Live ammunition was reportedly fired at protesters in Port Elizabeth's Northern Areas on Monday. An eNCA reporter, Sandy ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Police use rubber bullets to end violent PE protest
CAPE TOWN – Police say the situation in the Port Elizabeth area where a violent protest erupted earlier today has been brought under control ... «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
3
No load shedding for Port Elizabeth - all the electricity workers are …
While the rest of South Africa has been hard hit by load shedding this weekend, residents from Nelson Mandela Bay have not had to endure ... «MyBroadband, Jul 15»
4
Police monitor PE after violent protests
CAPE TOWN – There's a heavy police presence in Port Elizabeth where community members are meeting with officials in the wake of a violent ... «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
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Education department blames schools for protests
Port Elizabeth - Amid reports of escalating violence in a protest in Port Elizabeth's Northern Areas on Monday morning over vacancies at ... «News24, Jul 15»
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Foreign students stranded in SA
A number of international students at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth are stranded in South Africa because of study ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»
7
Lions remain unbeaten after 3 matches
A strong second half by visiting Western Province saw then ease past the EP Kings in the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on ... «The New Age Online, Jul 15»
8
Jayde Panayiotou's bucket list - check
PORT ELIZABETH - Jayde Panayiotou's abduction and murder shocked South Africa. That horror only grew when her husband Christopher ... «eNCA, Jul 15»
9
Bloem fraudster will know fate in August
She was a barlady and a stripper in Port Elizabeth before she started her own import business in 2009. Greyling testified how she had used ... «News24, Jul 15»
10
'We'll take the cities'
DA leader Mmusi Maimane, speaking yesterday in Durban, laid out his party's plan: to win the Pretoria and Port Elizabeth municipalities and ... «Times LIVE, Jul 15»

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