harbour
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)harbours
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargoSynonyms: seaporthavenharborType of portKinds coaling station, port of callExamples Caesarea, Boston Harbor, Pearl HarborPart of seafrontParts landing, dock, anchorage
- a place of refuge and comfort and securitySynonyms: harborType of refuge, sanctuary
Verb (4)harbours, harbouring
- secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)Synonyms: harborMore general shelter
- keep in one's possession; of animalsSynonyms: harborMore general keep, hold on
- hold back a thought or feeling about“She is harboring a grudge against him”Synonyms: harborshieldMore general hide, conceal
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)“bear a grudge”“entertain interesting notions”“harbor a resentment”Synonyms: harborholdentertainnursebearMore general feel, experience
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Noun Standard spelling of harbor
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“harbour” is listed under Harbor.
Origin: OE. herbor, herberwe, herberge, Icel. herbergi (cf. OHG. heriberga), orig., a shelter for soldiers; herr army + bjarga to save, help, defend; akin to AS. here army, G. heer, OHG. heri, Goth. harjis, and AS. beorgan to save, shelter, defend, G. bergen. See Harry, 2d Bury, and cf. Harbinger.
1. A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
[A grove] fair harbour that them seems.— Edmund Spenser
For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.— John Dryden
2. Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Astrol. The mansion of a heavenly body. obsolete
4. A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.
5. Glass Works A mixing box for materials.
Harbor dues Nautical, fees paid for the use of a harbor. — Harbor seal Zoology, the common seal. — Harbor watch, a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.
Origin: OE. herberen, herberwen, herbergen; cf. Icel. herbergja. See Harbor, noun
To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge.
Any place that harbors men.— William Shakespeare
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected.— Bp. Gilbert Burnet
Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage.— Nicholas Rowe
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54