English
Alternative spellings
harbour (UK)
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-harbor.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
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- A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may dock or anchor, especially for loading and unloading.
#: A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - q:Sarah Orne Jewett|Sarah Orne Jewett
- Any place of shelter.
#: The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.
Translations
trans-top|a place for ships
Bulgarian: п�и��ани�е (pristanište) n, п�и��ан (pristan) m
Danish: havn
Esperanto: haveno
Finnish: satama
French: port, quai m
German: Hafen m
Hawaiian: hono
Italian: porto m
Japanese: 港 (minato)
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Korean: í�구 (hanggu)
Malay: bandar
Polish: port m
Portuguese: cais, porto
Russian: гаван� f
Slovene: pristaniš�e n, pristan m
Spanish: puerto m
Swedish: hamn c
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trans-top|any place of shelter
Bulgarian: под�лон (podslon) m, �бежи�е (ubežište) n
Finnish: turvapaikka, turvasatama
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Verb
en-verb
- transitive To provide a harbor or safe place for.
#: The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.
- intransitive To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
#: The fleet harbored in the south.
- transitive To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
#: She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.
Translations
trans-top|to provide safe place
Finnish: suojella, antaa suojapaikka
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See also
haven
dock
References
R:Webster 1913|harbor
R:Dictionary.com|harbor
"harbor" in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation.
"harbour" in Compact Oxford English Dictionary, © Oxford University Press, 2007.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
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