Haven

Quick meaning: Haven is a noun meaning (literal, dated) A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

Meaning

(literal, dated) A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

More Meanings

1. A safe place.
2. A peaceful or tranquil place.
3. To put into, or provide with a haven.
4. (graph theory) 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.
5. (obsolete) plural simple present of have

Example Sentences

And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;

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.

The craftie Badger, the Watry Otter / Whome Howndes purſue, till they hauen got her / Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.

For Lord, what charity hauen such men of religion, that knowen how they mowen against and sinne, and fleen awat from their brethren that bene more vncunning then they ben, and suffren thē to trauelen in the world withouten their councel as beastes?

Word Forms

• havens
• havening
• havened

Synonyms for haven

Depending on context, synonyms include refuge, sanctuary, zoar, seaport, harbor, harbour.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harbor, harbour, seaport, oasis, port, redoubt.

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