haven

plural havens

1. datedliteralA harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.

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

   1842, Alfred Tennyson, “"Break, break, break,"”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 229

2. A safe place.

   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.

   2011 December 21, Helen Pidd, “Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2021

   Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary, zoar

3. A peaceful or tranquil place.
4. graph theoryA 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.

present singular third person havens · participle present havening · participle past havened · past havened

1. To put into, or provide with a haven.

1. obsoletepluralpresentplural simple present of have

   The craftie Badger, the Watry Otter / Whome Howndes purſue, till they hauen got her / Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.

   1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature G, recto

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   And they that occupye them bene in moche ſauegarde, and hauen greate conſolacyon, and bene the readyer vnto all goodnes, the ſlower to all euyll, and yf they haue done any thing amyſe, anone euen by the ſyght of the bookes theyꝛ conſciences bene admoniſhed, and they waxen ſoꝛy ⁊ aſhamed of the facte.

   1540, Thomas [Cranmer], “A Prologue or Preface […]”, in The Byble in Englyshe, […] (Great Bible), [2nd edition], [London]: […] Edward whytchurche, signature [i], verso

   For Lord, what charity hauen such men of religion, that knowen how they mowen against and sinne, and fleen awat from their brethren that bene more vncunning then they ben, and suffren thē to trauelen in the world withouten their councel as beastes?

   1570, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments, page 517

1. A surname.
2. A unisex given name of modern usage.
3. A place in the United States:
   1. A city in Reno County, Kansas.
   2. A township in Sherburne County, Minnesota, named after John Ormsbee Haven.
   3. A hamlet in Sullivan County, New York.
   4. A ghost town in Grant County, Washington.
   5. An unincorporated community in the town of Mosel, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
4. A town in the Rural City of Horsham, Victoria, Australia.