haven
NounUS[hey-vuhn]/ˈheɪvən/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)havens
- a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuarySynonyms: oasisType of shelter
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargoSynonyms: seaportharborharbourType of portKinds coaling station, port of callExamples Caesarea, Boston Harbor, Pearl HarborPart of seafrontParts landing, dock, anchorage
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Translations
Noun harbour, port
Noun refuge, safe place
- Spanish
- refugio
- German
- Rückzugsort
- Portuguese
- refúgio
- Russian
- приста́нище pristánišče
- Chinese
- 避难所 bìnànsuǒ
- Dutch
- toevluchtsoord
- Polish
- przystań
- Swedish
- fristad
- Greek
- καταφύγιο katafýgio
- Hungarian
- rév
3 more languages
- Portuguese (PT)
- refúgio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 避難所 bìnànsuǒ
- Finnish
- turvapaikka
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ha′ven (hā′v'n), noun
Origin: AS. hæfene; akin to D. & LG. haven, G. hafen, MHG. habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave (see Heave); or akin to AS. hæf sea, Icel. & Sw. haf, Dan. hav, which is perh. akin to E. heave.
1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
What shipping and what lading 's in our haven.— William Shakespeare
Their haven under the hill.— Alfred Tennyson
2. A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum. William Shakespeare
The haven, or the rock of love.— Edmund Waller
Ha′ven transitive verb
To shelter, as in a haven. John Keats
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54