Meanings
- alternativeimpreciseAlternative form of Le Havre, an important port of northern France.
Give me that paper, Hallemeier. [Reads]: "The first national Robot organization has been founded at Havre, and has issued an appeal to the Robots throughout the world."
c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2 - A city, the county seat of Hill County, Montana, United States.
Ana Suda says what started as a late-night trip to buy eggs and milk took a surprising turn last week in Havre, Montana, about 35 miles from the US-Canada border.
2018 May 23, Catherine E. Shoichet, “The US border is bigger than you think”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2022
Origin
- FrenchLe Havre“The Harbor”
- EnglishHavre
Borrowed from French Le Havre (“The Harbor”), q.v.
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Havre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Havre
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