Harbour

Definition: Harbour

Harbour

Noun

1. A place where ships can take on or discharge cargo.

Verb

1. Secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals).

2. Keep in one's possession; of animals.

3. Hold a thought or feeling of.

4. Maintain; as of a theory, thoughts, or feelings; "bear a grudge"; "hold a grudge".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "harbour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Harbour

Crosswords: Harbour

Massacre Harbour (1969)

Het Geheim van Killary Harbour (1960)

Ship in Harbour (1956)

In Harbour (1951)

Temptation Harbour (1947)

Harbour Lights (performing artist: The Platters)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Harbour Capital Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Harbour Centre Development Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The Mersey Docks and Harbour Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Sutton Harbour Holdings plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Tongkah Harbour Public Company Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Catucto : Battle Harbour, Labrador 1832-1833 (reference)

• Cold Harbour (reference)

• Island of Secrets: Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour (reference)

• Polsinney Harbour (reference)

• Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens: His Diary Kept When a Prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, 1865; Giving Incidents and Reflections of His) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Harbour Report North America (reference)

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Music

• Harbour (reference)

• Harbour of Tears (reference)

• One Particular Harbour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fellowes Golf Digest® Harbour Town Mouse Pad (58800) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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[Godowa Beach, Langemak Harbour, New Guinea]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. supply ships, Culgoa and Glacier(?), Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cyrenaica freed again of Axis forces. Britain's victory yields 25,000 prisoners. An endless line of German and Italian prisoners being marched down from the desert to Tobruk harbour (seen in middle distance) for transport by sea to prisoner-of-war camps. Credit: Library of Congress.

Loyal ashore off Indian Harbour. Credit: Library of Congress.

Landing place, railway stores, Balaklava, looking up the harbour. Credit: Library of Congress.

Balaklava harbour, the cattle pier. Credit: Library of Congress.

Harbour Green, Massapequa, Long Island. Barker. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lifehouse no. 3, Harbour Green, Massapequa, Long Island. Entrance detail. Credit: Library of Congress.

S.S. Victorio Louise [sic] entering Havana Harbour. Credit: Library of Congress.

Complete view of Toronto harbour showing the eastern and western entrances. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It is understood that for the purpose of the present Article the port of Kehl includes the whole of the area necessary for the movement of the port and the trains which serve it, including the harbour, quays and railroads, platforms, cranes, sheds and warehouses, silos, elevators and hydro-electric plants, which make up the equipment of the port. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The fever was over, and Emma could harbour little fear of the pulse being quickened again by injurious courtesy

He was the Curate at the Harbour, not thirty years old, and had been married only two years

This, it seemed, was the only love and that the only hate his soul would harbour.

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Business

The Harbour Department (HD) has two major functions. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

The largest of all the environmental infrastructure projects currently being undertaken is the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme. (references)

Jamaica

The Association is located at 78-80 Harbour St., Kingston (phone: [876] 922-2319). A list of members can be obtained from the Association. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "harbour": Aquia Harbour ♦ assistant harbour master ♦ bal Harbour ♦ dry harbour ♦ enter a harbour ♦ fishery harbour ♦ fishing harbour ♦ guest harbour ♦ harbour authorities ♦ harbour defence ♦ harbour dues ♦ harbour entrance ♦ Harbour Heights ♦ harbour light ♦ harbour master ♦ harbour master's office ♦ harbour office ♦ harbour pilot ♦ Harbour Pointe ♦ harbour seal ♦ harbour traffic ♦ Indian Harbour Beach ♦ outer harbour ♦ tidal harbour. Additional references.

Beginning with "harbour": harbour-front, harbour-master, harbour-moles, harbour-wall, harbour-watching.

Ending with "harbour": cross-harbour.

Afrikaans

hawe (harbor, port). (various references)

Albanian

ushqej në mendje (Harbor), strehoj (accommodate, billet, Canton, cover, embay, Harbor, haven, home, host, house, Lodge, quarter, refuge, resettle, shelter), strehohem (ensconce, ensconce oneself, Harbor, nestle), strehë (asylum, awning, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, haven, home, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, pad, peak, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, sconce, shade, shed, shelter), skelë (bunder, gang board, Harbor, harborage, harbourage, landing, mole, pier, port, scaffold, scaffolding, stage, staging, water front, wharf), port (bunder, Harbor, port), liman (basin, bay, blight, cove, fleet, Harbor, haven, nook, port), fshihem (disappear, efface oneself, elope, fade, Harbor, hide away, hide oneself, Lam, lurk, rub oneself, skulk), fsheh (Bury, cache, cloak, conceal, cover, curtain, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, enshroud, Harbor, hide, hide away, obscure, plant, screen, secrete, sink, stash, veil, withhold, wrap up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتم (conceal, concealment, harbor, hide, hiding, repress, restrain, secrete, subdue, suppress, withhold), ‏ميناء (harbor, port, seaport), ‏ملجأ (asylum, burrow, cover, harbor, haven, hideaway, hideout, home, lair, poorhouse, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter), ‏ملاذ (anchor, anchorage, asylum, harbor, haven, hermitage, hideaway, recourse, refuge, resort, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), ‏نذير (foreboding, harbinger, harbor, portent, precursor, presage), ‏وفر مأوى (harbor), ‏إستضاف (accommodate, entertain, harbor, host, put up), ‏أنذر (bode, croak, devote oneself, forebode, forecast, foretoken, give smb. notice, harbor, notify, portend, vow, warn, warn against), ‏أوى (accommodate, harbor, hard, lodge, nestle, quarter, shelter), ‏أخفى (cloak, conceal, cover up, harbor, hid, hill, hush, keep, obscure, obstruct, palm, receive, secrete, shelter, smother, stash, stow, suppress, wrap). (various references)

Basque

portu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стоя на, скривам се в леговището си, тая (cherish, entertain, smoulder, suppress), пускам котва, приютявам (bestow, haver, home), пристанище (dock, haven, mole, port), портов, порт (port), подслон (harborage, harbourage, housing, inn, nest, protection, refuge, rest, roof, sconce, shelter). (various references)

Chinese 

港口 (Harbor). (various references)

Czech

skrývat (conceal, Harbor, hide, shield), poskytnout útulek, přechovávat (Harbor, receive), přístav (Harbor, haven, larboard, Liverpool, port, stop), mít (derive, experience, Harbor, have, keep, possess, suffer, to have), chovat (breed, cradle, entertain, Foster, Harbor, rear), útulek (harborage, harbourage, haven, refuge, resting place, retreat, shelter), útoèištì (haven, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, sanctuary). (various references)

Danish

havn (harbor, port). (various references)

Dutch

haven (harbor, port). (various references)

Esperanto

haveno (harbor, port). (various references)

Faeroese

havn (port). (various references)

Finnish

satama (haven, port). (various references)

French

port (Harbor, haven). (various references)

German

hafen (docks, Harbor, haven, jug, Marina, port, pot, seaport). (various references)

Greek 

λιμάνι (port, seaport). (various references)

Hungarian

hadikikötõ (Harbor, naval port), szállás (accommodation, billets, bivvy, forecastle, harborage, harbourage, housing, kip, living quarters, lodgement, lodging, lodgment, quarters), révhely (Harbor), kikötõben horganyoz (Harbor), kikötõ (dock, Harbor, haven, port, roadstead), kikötő (dock, harbor, haven, landing stage, port), kikötô (port). (various references)

Indonesian

pelabuhan (anchorage, port), bandar (croupier, ditch, dock, duct, port, trading-town, water course). (various references)

Irish

cuan (harbor, port). (various references)

Italian

porto (carriage, freight, Harbor, harborage, harbourage, haven, I bring, port). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

港 (port). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふなつきば (landing place, wharf), みなと (port). (various references)

Korean 

항구 (Harbor, Port, seaport). (various references)

Lombard

pòrt (port). (various references)

Manx

keiltyn (conceal, concealment, cover, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, dissimulation, hide, renege, shelter, sneak, suppress, suppression, veil, veneer), cur aaght da (board of people, house, lodge, put up, room), camys (cove, elbow). (various references)

Norwegian

havn (port). (various references)

Occitan

pòrt. (various references)

Papiamen

haf (port). (various references)

Pig Latin

arbourhay.(various references)

Polish

port (port). (various references)

Portuguese

porto (harbor, harborage, harbourage, haven, mole, Oporto, port, seaport). (various references)

Romanian

port (conduct, costume, garb, Harbor, haven, port, seaport). (various references)

Russian 

гавань (harbor, haven). (various references)

Scottish

cala (haven, port). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaštititi (defend, harbor, protect), skrovište (concealment, harbor, hide out, hideout, hiding place, lurking place, nest), luka (harbor, haven, port, puerto), gajiti (cherish, cultivate, foster, harbor, keep up, raise). (various references)

Spanish

puerto (gate, Harbor, haven, light, port, saddle). (various references)

Swedish

hamn (apparition, docks, ghost, guise, Harbor, haven, port). (various references)

Thai

ท่าเรือ (harbor, haven, landing, tie-up), จอดเรือไว้ที่ท่าเรือ (harbor). (various references)

Turkish

sığınmak (defect, fall back upon a thing, Harbor, nestle, refuge, take refuge in, take sanctuary, take shelter in, take to, turn to), sığınak (air-raid shelter, asylum, bunker, burrow, cove, cover, covering, covert, cranny, creep, den, fastness, Harbor, haven, lair, refuge, repair, sanctuary, shelter, stronghold, tabernacle, tower), liman (Harbor, haven, port, seaport), gütmek (bear, brood over, drive, Harbor, herd, nourish, pasture, Shepherd, tail), demir atmak (anchor, cast anchor, Harbor, moor, put over, settle down), beslemek (breed, bring up, cherish, embrace, feed, Foster, Harbor, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, suckle), barınmak (Harbor, shelter), barındırmak (Harbor, hold, house, hut, keep back, nestle, shelter), barınak (asylum, burrow, cove, Harbor, haven, hiding place, housing, refuge, repair, sanctuary, shelter). (various references)

Ukrainian

стати на якір (anchor, cast anchor, drop anchor), гавань (haven), притулок (accommodation, asylum, bield, chimney, cover, niche, nook, port, purlieu, refuge, sanctuary, shelter, subterfuge, succor, succour), порт (port), дати притулок. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trưởng cảng (harbour-master). (various references)

portus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "harbour": harboured, harbouring, harbours. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arbour, harbor.

-2 letters: abhor, arbor, burro.

-3 letters: boar, bora, buhr, bura, burr, habu, hoar, hora, hour, orra, roar.

-4 letters: abo, arb, bah, bar, boa, bra, bro, brr, bur, hao, hob, hub, oar, ora, orb, our, rah, rho, rob, rub, urb.

-5 letters: ab, ah, ar, ba, bo, ha, ho, oh, or, uh.

+1 letter: harbours.

+2 letters: harborful, harboured.

+3 letters: harborfuls, harbouring, rubythroat, yarborough.

+4 letters: barrelhouse, rhabdovirus, rubythroats, yarboroughs.

+5 letters: barrelhouses, breakthrough, housebreaker, turbocharged, turbocharger.