| 1. | a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents. |
| 2. | such a body of water having docks or port facilities. |
| 3. | any place of shelter or refuge: The old inn was a harbor for tired travelers. |
| 4. | to give shelter to; offer refuge to: They harbored the refugees who streamed across the borders. |
| 5. | to conceal; hide: to harbor fugitives. |
| 6. | to keep or hold in the mind; maintain; entertain: to harbor suspicion. |
| 7. | to house or contain. |
| 8. | to shelter (a vessel), as in a harbor. |
| 9. | (of a vessel) to take shelter in a harbor. |

har·bour (här'bər) n. & v. Chiefly British Variant of harbor. |
harbour
any part of a body of water and the manmade structures surrounding it that sufficiently shelters a vessel from wind, waves, and currents, enabling safe anchorage or the discharge and loading of cargo and passengers
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