transport

Etymology

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) +‎ port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, tränspôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈpoət/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: trans‧port

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, tränsʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæns.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæns.po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæns.poət/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ænspɔː(ɹ)t
• Hyphenation: trans‧port

Verb

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

   to transport goods; to transport troops

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:

     But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.

2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

   Music transports the soul.

   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:

     Thes. Pray you kneele not,
     I was transported with your Speech, and suffer'd
     Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes
     Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting
     As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for 'em.
     

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.

Noun

transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

1. An act of transporting; conveyance.

   The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.

2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
   • 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:

     In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.

3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

   The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.

6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
7. (historical) A deported convict.

Derived terms

Related terms

• antitransport
• transportability
• transportable
• transportage
• transportation
• transporter
• transportive

Etymology

From transportar (“to transport”).

Noun

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

Further reading

• “transport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “transport”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “transport” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “transport” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology

From Middle Dutch transport, from Middle French transport, from Old French transport, from transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin transporto, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trɑnˈspɔrt/, /trɑnsˈpɔrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: trans‧port
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun

transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)

1. transport

Etymology

Internationalism ultimately from Latin trānsportō.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: trans‧port

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Noun

transport (genitive transpordi, partitive transporti)

1. transport

   Synonym: veondus

Further reading

• “transport”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “transport”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “transport”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• transport in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophone: transports

Noun

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

Further reading

• “transport”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.

Noun

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transporter, definite plural transportene)

1. transport, transportation

References

• “transport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.

Noun

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)

1. transport, transportation

References

• “transport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.