HAVEN
What does "HAVEN" mean?
A place of safety, shelter, or refuge.
Meanings
- A safe place; a refuge. The library was her haven from the noise of home.
- A harbour or small port where ships can shelter. The fishing boats made for the haven before the gale hit.
Did you know?
- Before it meant any safe place, a haven was specifically a harbour - which is why the '-hagen' in Copenhagen and the 'Haven' in New Haven are the same word.
Word origin
From Old English 'hæfen' ('harbour, port'), related to Old Norse 'höfn' and Dutch 'haven'; the figurative 'place of safety' sense grew from the literal harbour.
Remember it
A HAVEN is where you can finally say you've-been-safe: hear 'have-n' as the rest you've earned.
A little poem
Past the breakwater
the wind forgets the ocean-
still water, harboured.
haiku
Wordplay
- The tax accountant moved his money to a haven. Same word the sailors used - a quiet port where nothing rough can reach you.
What it teaches
A haven is not the absence of storms but the presence of a wall you trust to hold.
Quick facts
What does HAVEN mean?
A place of safety, shelter, or refuge.
Is HAVEN a valid word?
Yes — HAVEN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HAVEN?
HAVEN has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HAVEN come from?
From Old English 'hæfen' ('harbour, port'), related to Old Norse 'höfn' and Dutch 'haven'; the figurative 'place of safety' sense grew from the literal harbour.
What can HAVEN teach us?
A haven is not the absence of storms but the presence of a wall you trust to hold.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.