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Haves

//hævz// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The wealthy or privileged, contrasted to those who are poor or deprived: the have-nots. plural, plural-only
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of have form-of, indicative, nonstandard, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

Etymology 1

From have + -s, from Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap-. See have for details.

Etymology 2

From have + -s, from Middle English heven, hebben, from Old English hebban, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to take up, lift”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, from the root *kap-. See have for details.

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