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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'harbour' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions harbour noun  (context, obsolete, uncountable) shelter, Shelter, refuge. A place of shelter or refuge. The neighbourhood is a well-known for petty thieves. (obsolete) A house of the zodiac. Late C14: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin"s Tale", Canterbury Tales A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload. The city has an excellent natural . Translations:  French: port German: Hafen Spanish: puerto verb  (transitive) To provide shelter or refuge for. The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now only petty thieves. Translations:  French: abriter Etymology: Apparently from unattested Old English herebeorg (hereOld English, here "army" + gebeorg, Äebeorg "shelter"), or directly from (or influenced by) cognate Old Norse herbergi. Cognate with Dutch herberg, German Herberge "hospice", Swedish hírbírge.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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