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Haven
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- 1 A surname.
- 2 A unisex given name of modern usage.
- 3 A place in the United States:; A city in Reno County, Kansas.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A township in Sherburne County, Minnesota, named after John Ormsbee Haven.
- 5 A place in the United States:; A hamlet in Sullivan County, New York.
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- 6 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Grant County, Washington.
- 7 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Mosel, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
- 8 A town in the Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia.
- 1 A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea. dated
"And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;"
- 2 a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo wordnet
- 5 A peaceful or tranquil place.
- 1 To put into, or provide with a haven.
- 2 plural simple present of have form-of, obsolete, plural, present
"And they that occupye them bene in moche ſauegarde, and hauen greate conſolacyon, and bene the readyer vnto all goodnes, the ſlower to all euyll, and yf they haue done any thing amyſe, anone euen by the ſyght of the bookes theyꝛ conſciences bene admoniſhed, and they waxen ſoꝛy ⁊ aſhamed of the facte."
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.
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.
From Middle English haven; equivalent to have + -en (plural simple present ending).
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