What (who) is harbour - definition

SHELTERED BODY OF WATER WHERE SHIPS, BOATS, AND BARGES CAN BE DOCKED

Harbors; Harbours; Natural harbor; Natural harbour; Natural harbors; Natural harbours; Harbours and sea works; Harbour (Haven); Harbour; Harbours and Sea Works; Harbor port; Tidal harbour; Natural port; Harborage; Gangwan

harbour

(harbours, harbouring, harboured)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

Note: in AM, use 'harbor'

A harbour is an area of the sea at the coast which is partly enclosed by land or strong walls, so that boats can be left there safely.

She led us to a room with a balcony overlooking the harbour...

N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES

If you harbour an emotion, thought, or secret, you have it in your mind over a long period of time.

He might have been murdered by a former client or someone harbouring a grudge...

VERB: V n

If a person or country harbours someone who is wanted by the police, they let them stay in their house or country and offer them protection.

Accusations of harbouring suspects were raised against the former Hungarian leadership.

VERB: V n

harbour

see harbor

harbour

(US harbor)

¦ noun a place on the coast where ships may moor in shelter, either naturally formed or artificially created.

¦ verb

1. keep (a thought or feeling) secretly in one's mind.

2. give a refuge or shelter to.

carry the germs of (a disease).

3. archaic moor in a harbour.

Derivatives

harbourless adjective

Origin

OE herebeorg 'shelter', herebeorgian 'occupy shelter', of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Harbor

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor

Pronunciation examples for harbour

1. And then they'd tow the sharks back to Purteen Harbour,

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2. I mean, I'd thought about the Harbour Bridge or Bondi Beach,

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3. lf l had to pick a top one, l would say Bar Harbour.

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4. and I teach citizen science and invention at the Hong Kong Harbour School.

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5. but to a ship, the Ann and Mary, that was floating in London Harbour,

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Examples of use of harbour

1. The harbour master, who did not want to be named, said sailing the massive crane barge into the harbour was a tricky operation in itself.

2. We go back to the harbour, and after some haggling and persuasion, the harbour master agrees to take us to the old Karelian village of Velikaya Guba.

3. "A free Iraq will fight terrorists rather than harbour them.

4. Victor of Patterson of Marsh Harbour, Bahamas Boris N.

5. Two hundred years on, Cdiz remains a great harbour.