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haven

noun
/ˈheɪvən/

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 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.

  1. inherited from *kh₂pnós✻
  2. derived from *habą✻
  3. inherited from *habnō✻
  4. inherited from *habanu✻
  5. inherited from hæfen
  6. inherited from haven

Definitions

  1. 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. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A certain type of function on sets of vertices in an undirected graph, able to be used by…

      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.

    2. To put into, or provide with a haven.

    3. plural simple present of have

      • 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.

    4. A surname.

    5. A unisex given name of modern usage.

    6. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

    7. A town in the Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA