haven

CEFRB2

/ˈheɪvən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A safe place offering protection or shelter.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A peaceful or tranquil place.

Examples

  • "Haven't we met somewhere before?" asked the student.

  • The Isle of Man is a tax haven.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A safe place.

  2. A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

  3. 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.

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In context

  • Why are you sorry for something you haven't done?

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

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)). Doublet of abra.