haven

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈheɪvən/

Definition of haven

14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated)A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
    “And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;”
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noun

  1. (dated)A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
    “And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;”
  2. A safe place.
    “Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.”
  3. A peaceful or tranquil place.
  4. A certain type of function on sets of vertices in an undirected graph, able to be used by an evader to win a pursuit-evasion game on the graph.

verb

  1. To put into, or provide with a haven.
  2. (form-of, obsolete, plural, present)plural simple present of have
    “And they that occupye them bene in moche ſauegarde, and hauen greate conſolacyon, and bene the readyer vnto all goodnes, the ſlower to all euyll, and yf they haue done any thing amyſe, anone euen by the ſyght of the bookes theyꝛ conſciences bene admoniſhed, and they waxen ſoꝛy ⁊ aſhamed of the facte.”
    “For Lord, what charity hauen such men of religion, that knowen how they mowen against and sinne, and fleen awat from their brethren that bene more vncunning then they ben, and suffren thē to trauelen in the world withouten their councel as beastes?”
    “The craftie Badger, the Watry Otter / Whome Howndes purſue, till they hauen got her / Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A unisex given name of modern usage.
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. A place in the United States:
  5. A place in the United States:
  6. A place in the United States:
  7. A place in the United States:
  8. A town in the Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia.

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Etymology

From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French…

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From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)). Doublet of abra.

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