haven

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

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

2. 2
   noun

   A safe place.

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   plural simple present of have

   And they that occupye them bene in moche ſauegarde, and hauen greate conſolacyon, and bene the readyer vnto all goodnes, the ſlower to all euyll, and yf they haue done any thing amyſe, anone euen by the ſyght of the bookes theyꝛ conſciences bene admoniſhed, and they waxen ſoꝛy ⁊ aſhamed of the facte.

4. 4
   noun

   a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

5. 5
   noun

   a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

6. 6
   noun

   A peaceful or tranquil place.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   verb

   To put into, or provide with a haven.

Etymology

From Middle English haven, havene, from Old English hæfen (“haven; harbour; port”), from Proto-West Germanic *habanu, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Norwegian/Danish havn, Swedish hamn, French havre), from Proto-Germanic *habą (“sea”) (compare Old English hæf, Middle Low German haf, Old Norse haf (“sea”), German Haff (“bay or lagoon behind a spit”), perhaps, in the sense of "heaving sea", etymologically identical with Old Norse haf (“heaving, lifting, uplift, elevation”), derived from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to lift, heave”)), or from Proto-Indo-Europ…