Haven

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  • noun. A harbor or anchorage; a port.
  • noun. A place of refuge or rest; a sanctuary.
  • transitive verb. To put into or provide with a haven.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A harbor; a port; any place which affords good anchorage and a safe station for ships, or in which ships can be sheltered by the land from wind and sea.
  • noun. Hence A shelter; an asylum; a place of safety.
  • To shelter as in a haven.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To shelter, as in a haven.
  • noun. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port.
  • noun. A place of safety; a shelter; an asylum.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
  • noun. A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
  • verb. To put into, or provide with a haven.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
  • noun. a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary
  • Word Usage
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    Form
    tax haven  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shelter  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cavan  Laven  Raven  Sarajevan  craven  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abide  anchorage  asylum  bower  cove  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    havened  havening  havens