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What does HARBOUR mean?

Definitions for HARBOUR
ˈhɑr bərhar·bour

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word HARBOUR.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. seaport, haven, harbor, harbournoun

    a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

  2. harbor, harbournoun

    a place of refuge and comfort and security

  3. harbor, harbourverb

    secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

  4. harbor, harbourverb

    keep in one's possession; of animals

  5. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

    hold back a thought or feeling about

    "She is harboring a grudge against him"

  6. harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurseverb

    maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

    "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

Wiktionary

  1. harbournoun

    Shelter, refuge.

  2. harbournoun

    A place of shelter or refuge.

    The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.

  3. harbournoun

    A house of the zodiac.

  4. harbournoun

    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.

  5. harbourverb

    To provide shelter or refuge for.

    The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.

  6. harbourverb

    To accept, as with a belief.

    That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.

  7. Etymology: From herber, herberge, from herebeorg, from harjaz + bergô, equivalent to here + gebeorg. Cognate with Old Norse herbergi (whence the Icelandic herbergi), Dutch herberg, German Herberge ‘hospice’, Swedish härbärge. Compare also French auberge. More at here, borrow.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. HARBOURnoun

    Etymology: herberge, French; herberg, Dutch; albergo, Italian.

    For harbour at a thousand doors they knock’d;
    Not one of all the thousand but was lock’d. John Dryden, Fables.

    Doubly curs’d
    Be all those easy fools who give it harbour. Nicholas Rowe, J. Shore.

    Three of your argosies
    Are richly come to harbour suddenly. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Ven.

    They leave the mouths of Po,
    That all the borders of the town o’erflow;
    And spreading round in one continu’d lake,
    A spacious hospitable harbour make. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

  2. To Harbourverb

    My lady bids me tell you, that though she harbours you as her uncle, she’s nothing allied to your disorders. William Shakespeare.

    Knaves I know, which in this plainness
    Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
    Than twenty silky ducking observants,
    That stretch their duties nicely. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought
    Of outrage from the king. Nicholas Rowe, Royal Convert.

    We owe this old house the same kind of gratitude that we do to an old friend who harbours us in his declining condition, nay even in his last extremities. Alexander Pope.

    How people, so greatly warmed with a sense of liberty, should be capable of harbouring such weak superstition; and that so much bravery and so much folly can inhabit the same breasts. Alexander Pope.

    Harbour yourself this night in this castle, because the time requires it; and, in truth, this country is very dangerous for murthering thieves to trust a sleeping life among them. Philip Sidney.

  3. To Harbourverb

    To receive entertainment; to sojourn; to take shelter.

    Etymology: from the noun.

    This night let’s harbour here in York. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    They are sent by me,
    That they should harbour where their lord would be. William Shakespeare.

    Southwards they bent their flight,
    And harbour’d in a hollow rock at night:
    Next morn they rose, and set up every sail;
    The wind was fair, but blew a mackrel gale. Dryden.

    Let me be grateful; but let far from me
    Be fawning cringe, and false dissembling look,
    And servile flattery, that harbours oft
    In courts and gilded roofs. Phillips.

Wikipedia

  1. harbour

    A harbor (American English), harbour (British English; see spelling differences), or haven is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be docked. The term harbor is often used interchangeably with port, which is a man-made facility built for loading and unloading vessels and dropping off and picking up passengers. Ports usually include one or more harbors. Alexandria Port in Egypt is an example of a port with two harbors. Harbors may be natural or artificial. An artificial harbor can have deliberately constructed breakwaters, sea walls, or jettys or they can be constructed by dredging, which requires maintenance by further periodic dredging. An example of an artificial harbor is Long Beach Harbor, California, United States, which was an array of salt marshes and tidal flats too shallow for modern merchant ships before it was first dredged in the early 20th century. In contrast, a natural harbor is surrounded on several sides of land. Examples of natural harbors include Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia and Trincomalee Harbour in Sri Lanka.

ChatGPT

  1. harbour

    A harbour is a sheltered area of water where ships, boats, or other types of watercraft are stored or can be sheltered from storms or other types of harmful weather conditions. Harbours are often equipped with various facilities like docks or piers, where boats can be loaded, unloaded, and repaired. They can be natural or man-made and are often deep enough to allow the safe passage of large vessels.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Harbour

    här′bur, n. any refuge or shelter: a port for ships—obs. form Har′borough.—v.t. to lodge or entertain: to protect: to possess or indulge, as thoughts.—v.i. to take shelter.—n. Har′bourage, place of shelter: entertainment.—n.pl. Har′bour-dues, charges for the use of a harbour.—n. Har′bourer, one who harbours or entertains.—adj. Har′bourless.—n. Har′bour-mas′ter, the public officer who has charge of a harbour.—Harbour of refuge, a harbour constructed to give shelter to ships on some exposed coast: any protection for one in distress. [M. E. herberwe—an assumed A.S. herebeorg—here, army, beorg, protection; cf. Ger. herberge, Ice. herbergi.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. harbour

    A general name given to any safe sea-port. The qualities requisite in a good harbour are, that it should afford security from the effects of the wind and sea; that the bottom be entirely free from rocks and shallows, but good holding ground; that the opening be of sufficient extent to admit the entrance or departure of large ships without difficulty; that it should have convenience to receive the shipping of different nations, especially those which are laden with merchandises; and that it possess establishments for refitting vessels. To render a harbour complete, there ought to be good defences, a good lighthouse, and a number of mooring and warping buoys; and finally, that it have plenty of fuel, water, provisions, and other materials for sea use. Such a harbour, if used as a place of commercial transactions, is called a port.

  2. harbour

    An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous substances, thrown up by the sea to the mouth of a river or harbour, so as to endanger, and sometimes totally prevent, the navigation into it.--Bars of rivers are some shifting and some permanent. The position of the bar of any river may commonly be guessed by attending to the form of the shores at the embouchure. The shore on which the deposition of sediment is going on will be flat, whilst the opposite one is steep. It is along the side of the latter that the deepest channel of the river lies; and in the line of this channel, but without the points that form the mouth of the river, will be the bar. If both the shores are of the same nature, which seldom happens, the bar will lie opposite the middle of the channel. Rivers in general have what may be deemed a bar, in respect of the depth of the channel within, although it may not rise high enough to impede the navigation--for the increased deposition that takes place when the current slackens, through the want of declivity, and of shores to retain it, must necessarily form a bank. Bars of small rivers may be deepened by means of stockades to confine the river current, and prolong it beyond the natural points of the river's mouth. They operate to remove the place of deposition further out, and into deeper water. Bars, however, act as breakwaters in most instances, and consequently secure smooth water within them. The deposit in all curvilinear or serpentine rivers will always be found at the point opposite to the curve into which the ebb strikes and rebounds, deepening the hollow and depositing on the tongue. Therefore if it be deemed advisable to change the position of a bar, it may be in some cases aided by works projected on the last curve sea-ward. By such means a parallel canal may be forced which will admit vessels under the cover of the bar.--Bar, a boom formed of huge trees, or spars lashed together, moored transversely across a port, to prevent entrance or egress.--Bar, the short bits of bar-iron, about half a pound each, used as the medium of traffic on the Negro coast.--Bar-harbour, one which, from a bar at its entrance, cannot admit ships of great burden, or can only do so at high-water.--Capstan-bars, large thick bars put into the holes of the drumhead of the capstan, by which it is turned round, they working as horizontal radial levers.--Hatch-bars, flat iron bars to lock over the hatches for security from theft, &c.--Port-bar, a piece of wood or iron variously fitted to secure a gun-port when shut.--Bar-shallow, a term sometimes applied to a portion of a bar with less water on it than on other parts of the bar.--Bar-shot, two half balls joined together by a bar of iron, for cutting and destroying spars and rigging. When whole balls are thus fitted they are more properly double-headed shot.--To bar. To secure the lower-deck ports, as above.

Editors Contribution

  1. harbour

    An area of water by land.

    The local harbour is accessible and beautiful.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 27, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. HARBOUR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Harbour is ranked #7964 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Harbour surname appeared 4,155 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Harbour.

    84.7% or 3,523 total occurrences were White.
    9.7% or 404 total occurrences were Black.
    2.3% or 96 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2% or 85 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 26 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 21 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'HARBOUR' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4729

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'HARBOUR' in Nouns Frequency: #1847

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HARBOUR in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HARBOUR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of HARBOUR in a Sentence

  1. Roberto Speranza:

    We finally see land, we have a clear route to a safe harbour... It seems likely that from January we will have the first vaccines.

  2. Catherine Novelli:

    We are very optimistic that we are going to be able to come to an agreement soon on Safe Harbour.

  3. The Buddha:

    He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me,"--in those who do not harbour such thoughts hatred will cease.

  4. Clara Bain:

    My friends are missing, a few of my cousins are missing over there, five in total, they lived in Marsh Harbour, everyone on the islands are missing someone, it's really devastating.

  5. Olafur Eliasson:

    One of the main sources of inspiration was for me my childhood in Iceland where the harbour,... where I spent a lot of time as my father was a sailor, sometimes filled up with boats so you could cross the harbour by going from one deck to the next.

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