Noun: haven
| Singular | haven |
| Plural | havens |
Sample Sentences
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[c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act XIII, scene what ſhipping, and what ladings in our hauen,]:]
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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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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:]
Nouns inflected like haven
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Old English Nouns '
hæfen', Dutch Nouns '
haven', German Nouns '
Hafen', Danish Nouns '
havn', Swedish Nouns '
hamn', French Nouns '
havre', Old English Nouns '
hæf', Old Norse Nouns '
haf', German Nouns '
Haff', Old Norse Nouns '
haf'.
Verbs referencing "haven"
German Nouns
Hafen, French Nouns
havre.