harbour
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- herberwe (obsolete)
- harborough (obsolete)
- harbor (now US)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English herber, herberge, from Old English herebeorg (“shelter, lodgings, quarters”), from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”) + *bergô (“protection”), equivalent to Old English here (“army, host”) + ġebeorg (“defense, protection, refuge”). Cognate with Old Norse herbergi (“a harbour; a room”) (whence the Icelandic herbergi), Dutch herberg, German Herberge ‘hospice’, Swedish härbärge. Compare also French auberge (“hostel”). More at here, borrow.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhɑːbə/ (UK), IPA: /ˈhɑrbər/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia harbour (plural harbours) (UK, Canada)
- (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
- A place of shelter or refuge.
- The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
- (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
- 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.
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[edit] Translations
place of shelter
for ships
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[edit] Verb
harbour (third-person singular simple present harbours, present participle harbouring, simple past and past participle harboured)
- (transitive) To provide shelter or refuge for.
- The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
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provide refuge for
