Haven Definition
haven
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English
Etymology
Old English hæfen, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō (compare Dutch haven, German Hafen, Danish/Norwegian havn), from haban 'sea' (compare Old English hæf, German Haff 'gulf', Danish hav), or from Proto-Indo-European *kopno- (compare Irish cúan 'harbor, recess, haven').
Pronunciation
Noun
haven (plural havens)
- A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
- (by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, the Guardian:
- 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.
- 2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, the Guardian:
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
haven (third-person singular simple present havens, present participle havening, simple past and past participle havened)
- To put into, or provide with a haven.
Translations
to put into, or provide with a haven
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Anagrams
Danish
Noun
haven c.
- singular definite of have
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch havene, from Old Dutch *havana, from Proto-Germanic *habnō, *habanō.
Pronunciation
Noun
haven f. (plural havens, diminutive haventje)
Derived terms
Middle English
Verb
haven
- to have
Descendants
- English: to have
Swedish
Noun
haven
- definite plural of hav
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Haven
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up haven in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Haven(s) or The Haven(s) may refer to:- Harbor, a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored
- Sanctuary, a consecrated area or a place of safety
Contents
- 1 Literature
- 2 Games
- 3 Music
- 4 People
- 5 Places
- 6 Schools
- 7 Ships
- 8 Television, film, and theatre
- 9 Other uses
- 10 See also
Literature
- Haven (Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter), a fictional character in Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels
- Haven (Artemis Fowl), a place in the Artemis Fowl series
- Haven (comics), a villain in the X-Men comics
- Republic of Haven, a star nation in David Weber's Honorverse series
- Haven, a fictional town in Stephen King's novel The Tommyknockers
- Haven, a character in the 1987 comic book Fusion
- Haven, a city in the Dragonlance series
- Haven, a planet in the War World series by Jerry Pournelle
- Haven, a minor planet in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
- Haven, the capital city of Valdemar, in the fictional world of Velgarth, in the novels of Mercedes Lackey
- Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America, a book by Ruth Gruber, basis for the 2001 TV miniseries
- Haven, a fictional character in the novel Evermore by Alyson Noel
- Haven, a fictional prison city that is home to the DC Comics group The Alliance
Games
- Haven: Call of the King, a video game for PlayStation 2
- Haven: City of Violence, a paper and pencil role-playing game
- Haven, a "prison book" in the video game Myst IV: Revelation
- Haven, a political entity in the fantasy role-playing game Earthdawn
- Haven, a planet in the role-playing game Shatterzone
Music
- Haven (band), an English indie rock band
- Haven (American band), a Christian metal band
- Haven (Dark Tranquillity album), or the title song
- Haven (Flook album)
People
Places
- Haven, Victoria, Australia
- Haven, Kansas, US
- Haven, New York, US
- Haven, Wisconsin, US
- Haven Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota, US
- Haven ports, a group of five docks on the East Coast of England
- The Haven, Boston, the tidal river of the Port of Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- The Haven, West Sussex, a small hamlet in West Sussex, England
- The Havens, Pembrokeshire, a community, and an electoral ward, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Schools
- Haven High Technology College, a secondary school in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- Haven Institute, a residential learning centre in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada
- Haven Middle School, Evanston, Illinois, US
Ships
- MT Haven, an oil tanker that exploded at sea in 1991
- Haven class hospital ship, a class of U.S. Navy hospital ships
- USS Haven (AH-12), the lead ship of that class
Television, film, and theatre
- Haven (film), a 2004 movie starring Orlando Bloom and Zoë Saldaña
- Haven (TV miniseries), a 2001 American television miniseries starring Natasha Richardson
- Haven (TV series), a 2010 American supernatural drama series
- Haven, Maine, a fictional town in the series
- "The Haven" (The Outer Limits), an episode
- "Haven" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode
- "Haven" (Transformers episode)
- "Haven" (Dark Angel), an episode of the television series Dark Angel
- Haven, a planet in the Firefly/Serenity universe, from the 2005 film Serenity
Other uses
- Haven (graph theory), a strategy for the evader in graph-based pursuit-evasion games
- Haven Holidays, a company that runs holiday parks in the United Kingdom
- HavenCo, a data hosting services company
- Whitehaven RLFC, nicknamed Haven, a Cumbrian rugby league club
See also
- Corporate haven
- Data haven
- Tax haven
- New Haven (disambiguation)
- Safe haven (disambiguation)
- East Haven (disambiguation)
- West Haven (disambiguation)
- North Haven (disambiguation)
- South Haven (disambiguation)
- Fairhaven (disambiguation)
- Refuge (disambiguation)