harbour
See also: Harbour
English
Pronunciation
Noun
harbour (plural harbours)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of harbor.
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
- In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
Derived terms
Translations
harbor — see harbor
Verb
harbour (third-person singular simple present harbours, present participle harbouring, simple past and past participle harboured)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of harbor.
- The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
- 1724, [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], →OCLC:
- The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
- Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
References
- “harbour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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