Harbour

See also harbor

English

Alternative spellings

• herberwe (obsolete)
• harborough (obsolete)
• harbor (now US)

Etymology

Apparently from unattested Old English *herebeorg (here ‘army’ + ġebeorg ‘shelter’), or directly from (or influenced by) cognate Old Norse herbergi (“‘a harbour; a room’”) (whence the Icelandic herbergi). Cognate with Dutch herberg, German Herberge ‘hospice’, Swedish härbärge.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhɑ:bə/ (UK), IPA: /ˈhɑrbər/

  Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)

Noun

Wikipedia

Singular Harbour

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Harbour ({{{1}}}) (British, Canadian)

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
2. A place of shelter or refuge.

   The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.

3. (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
4. 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 harbour.

Derived terms

• harbourage
• harbourmaster

Translations

place of shelter

Finnish: turvapaikka, turvasatama

French: havre fr(fr) m.

for ships

Afrikaans: hawe Armenian: նավահանգիստ hy(hy) (navahangist) Bulgarian: пристанище bg(bg) (pristánište) n. Chinese: 港 (gǎng) Danish: havn da(da) c. Dutch: haven nl(nl) f. Esperanto: haveno eo(eo) Finnish: satama fi(fi) French: port fr(fr) m. German: Hafen de(de) m. Greek: λιμάνι el(el) (limáni) n. Hawaiian: hono

Hungarian: kikötő hu(hu) Icelandic: höfn is(is) f. Latin: portus la(la) m. Malay: bandar ms(ms) Maori: whanga mi(mi) Polish: port pl(pl) m. Portuguese: porto pt(pt) m. Russian: гавань (gávan’) f. Serbian: pristanište n. Spanish: puerto es(es) m. Welsh: harbwr cy(cy) m.

Verb

Infinitive to Harbour

Third person singular -

Simple past -

Past participle -

Present participle -

to Harbour (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)

1. (transitive) To provide shelter or refuge for.

   The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.

Translations

provide refuge for

Finnish: suojella, tarjota suojapaikka French: abriter fr(fr)

Hebrew: להעניק מחסה he(he) (leha'aník makhasé) Portuguese: abrigar pt(pt)

See also

• dock
• haven

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