haven en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈheɪvən/
Etymology
From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), either from Proto-West Germanic *habanu or Old Norse hǫfn, 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.
Meanings
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(dated, qualifier:literal) A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;
1842, Alfred Tennyson, “"Break, break, break,"”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 229:
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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.
2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021:
- A peaceful or tranquil place.
- 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.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| havens | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
safehaven · Lake Haven · Barrow Haven · Grand Haven · Little Haven · Peacehaven · havener · safe haven · Brookhaven · havenage · Milford Haven · New Haven · havenlike · Winter Haven · Thames Haven · havenwards · Moore Haven · East Haven · havenless · Rest Haven · Fairhaven · West Haven · Shell Haven · South Haven · tax haven · The Havens · Lock Haven · North Haven · Fair Haven · Broad Haven · Vineyard Haven · Blue Haven · Littlehaven · havenward
Synonyms
Translations (93)
es asilo (refuge) · da refugium (refuge) · nl vrijhaven (refuge) · ca refugi (refuge) · he נמל (harbour) · sv fristad (refuge) · cmn 避難所 /避难所 (refuge) · nds Haven (harbour) · fr port (harbour) · de Hafen (harbour) · pl port (harbour) · ar مَلْجَأ (refuge) · fr refuge (refuge) · fr havre (refuge) · nl toevluchtsoord (refuge) · mi tuohunga (refuge) · de Rückzugsort (refuge) · el λιμάνι (harbour) · ar مِينَاء (harbour) · ko 항구 (harbour) · ru приста́нище (refuge) · ko 해항 (harbour) · da fristed (refuge) · el καταφύγιο (refuge) · fr abri (refuge) · fr havre (harbour) · ota لیمان (harbour) · fi valkama (harbour) · ja 避難所 (refuge) · mk засо́лниште (refuge) · bg убежище (refuge) · ca port (harbour) · hu menedék (refuge) · es puerto (harbour) · mi punanga (refuge) · it porto (harbour) · bg малко пристанище (harbour) · cmn 避風港 /避风港 (harbour) · mi nukuao (a peaceful place) · fr asile (refuge) · sh pribježište (refuge) · mi whakamaurutanga (refuge) · kk баспана (refuge) · mi piringa (refuge) · cmn 海港 (harbour) · nrf hâvre (harbour) · pa ਪਨਾਹਗਾਹ (refuge) · ja 海港 (harbour) · mk приста́ниште (harbour) · pt porto (harbour) · fi suojasatama (harbour) · ota مرسی (harbour) · mk прибе́жиште (refuge) · sh luka (harbour) · ru га́вань (harbour) · hu kikötő (harbour) · ar مَرْفَأ (harbour) · mi āhuru mōwai (refuge) · yi האַוון (harbour) · hu menedék (a peaceful place) · ru убе́жище (refuge) · fi turvapaikka (refuge) · da havn (harbour) · da tilflugtssted (refuge) · pl przystań (refuge) · sv tillflyktsort (refuge) · ru прию́т (refuge) · mk рај (a peaceful place) · ru прибе́жище (refuge) · ar مَلَاذ (refuge) · ja 港 (harbour) · sv hamn (harbour) · fr havre (a peaceful place) · sh luka spasa (refuge) · pt santuário (a peaceful place) · fr havre de paix (a peaceful place) · sh refugij (refuge) · mi whanga (harbour) · pt refúgio (refuge) · yi פּאָרט (harbour) · fi tyyssija (a peaceful place) · grc λιμήν (harbour) · ru порт (harbour) · sh sklonište (refuge) · nrf hâvre (refuge) · ko 피난처 (refuge) · hu rév (refuge) · de Zufluchtsort (refuge) · mi āhuru mōwai (a peaceful place) · es refugio (refuge) · nl haven (harbour) · ru укры́тие (refuge) · hu rév (harbour)