haven
Plural: havens
Noun
- a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary
- a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
- A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
- A place of safety.
- A peaceful place.
Verb
Verb Forms: havened, havening, havens
- To provide a safe place or shelter; to harbor or protect.
- To put into, or provide with a haven.
- plural simple present of have
Examples
- The triple-word score square can HAVEN many high-scoring Words With Friends plays.
Origin / 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-European *kh₂pnós (compare Old Irish cúan (“harbor, recess, haven”)). Doublet of abra.
Scrabble Score: 11
haven: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordhaven: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
haven: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary