have

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   have left

   I have two years left

2. 2
   verb

   receive willingly something given or offered

   The only employer who would have them was the miller.

3. 3
   verb

   have a personal or business relationship with someone

   have a postdoc

4. 4
   verb

   be confronted with

   What do we have here?

5. 5
   verb

   To possess, own.

   I have a house and a car.

6. 6
   verb

   To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

   Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!

7. 7
   verb

   To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

   The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.

8. 8
   verb

   Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

   I have two sisters.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kap-der. Proto-Germanic *habjaną Proto-West Germanic *habbjan Old English habban Middle English haven English have From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂pyéti, present tense of *kap- (“to take, seize, catch”). Related to heave. Since there is no common Indo-European root for a transitive possessive verb have (notice that Latin habeō is not etymologically related to English have), Proto-…