Definitions for Harbour

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Harbour har·bour

Spelling: [hahr-ber]

IPA: /ˈhɑr bər/

Harbour is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in Harbour (abhorru).

Definitions for Harbour

noun

1. a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
2. such a body of water having docks or port facilities.
3. any place of shelter or refuge:

verb (used with object)

1. to give shelter to; offer refuge to:
2. to conceal; hide:
3. to keep or hold in the mind; maintain; entertain:
4. to house or contain.
5. to shelter (a vessel), as in a harbor.

verb (used without object)

1. (of a vessel) to take shelter in a harbor.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. harbor.

Origin of Harbour

before 1150; Middle English herber(we), herberge, Old English herebeorg lodgings, quarters (here army + (ge)beorg refuge); cognate with German Herberge

Examples for Harbour

The day after I reached the harbour, I was ordered on board the Scourge.

As for Reilly, we have been in harbour together, in our old age, and I may speak of him again.

harbour improvements have occupied much of the attention of Government.

They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

But he was too generous to harbour it for more than an instant.

After the race the Duke and Duchess had a thrilling, bouncy ride across the harbour in an amphibious vehicle.

If you go towards the harbour, you'll most likely encounter your brother.

Our vessels were moored about the harbour, and we were all frozen in, as a matter of course.

At Yarmouth, where he landed, every ship in the harbour hoisted her colours.

I took the last water taxi running from Eleuthera to harbour Island.