Synonyms for harbor
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1. harbor

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. harbornoun

   Synonyms:
   haven, rest, refuge, shelter, anchorage, home, asylum, port

   Antonyms:
   labor, toil, peril, exposure, voyage, roving, roaming, wandering, pilgrimage, tossing

2. harborverb

   Synonyms:
   cherish, accommodate, entertain, encourage, indulge, shelter, foster, lodge

   Antonyms:
   eject, expel, discard, discourage, stifle, exclude, banish, dismiss

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. seaport, haven, harbor, harbournoun

   a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

   Synonyms:
   haven, seaport, harbour, oasis

2. harbor, harbournoun

   a place of refuge and comfort and security

   Synonyms:
   seaport, harbour, haven

3. harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurseverb

   maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

   "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

   Synonyms:
   accommodate, book, retain, moderate, view as, support, apply, hold back, harbour, defend, take hold, bind, suck, deem, hold up, toy with, arrest, breastfeed, take, have, concord, think about, check, make, take for, go for, throw, defy, control, keep, suckle, obligate, carry, give, adjudge, entertain, nurse, oblige, curb, hold, lactate, confine, have got, restrain, wet-nurse, withstand, agree, hold in, flirt with, halt, contain, think of, concur, maintain, guard, shield, keep back, sustain, prevail, reserve, admit, obtain, declare, give suck, bear

4. harbor, harbourverb

   secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

   Synonyms:
   harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

5. harbor, harbourverb

   keep in one's possession; of animals

   Synonyms:
   harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

6. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

   hold back a thought or feeling about

   "She is harboring a grudge against him"

   Synonyms:
   screen, harbour, nurse, shield, entertain, hold

Matched Categories

1. • Feel
   • Hide
   • Keep
   • Port
   • Refuge
   • Seafront
   • Shelter

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1. harbornoun

   Synonyms:
   asylum, refuge, shelter, covert, sanctuary, retreat, resting-place, place of shelter

2. harbornoun

   Synonyms:
   port, haven, destination

3. harborverb

   Synonyms:
   take shelter, find a harbor

4. harborverb

   Synonyms:
   shelter, lodge, protect

5. harborverb

   Synonyms:
   entertain, cherish, indulge, foster

6. harborverb

   Synonyms:
   (Law.) secrete, receive clandestinely

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1. harbornoun

   Synonyms:
   refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat, port, haven, destination

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "harbor":

   port, harbour, harper

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1. Jim Murren:

   I viewed art from the inception of National Harbor as not an amenity, but as an integral part of the narrative and experience to the resort.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   Our legislation is going to create a legal safe harbor for businesses, nonprofits, governments and workers and schools who are following public health guidelines.

3. New York:

   Anti-choice extremists have shown that they are not stopping at overturning Roe, and they are working to entirely dismantle our country’s reproductive health care system, including medication abortion and contraception, new York will always be a safe harbor for abortion care, and I am taking action to protect abortion access in our State and continue to lead the nation in defending the right to reproductive autonomy.

4. John A. Shedd:

   A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

5. Six Flags:

   Six Flags Magic Mountain and Hurricane Harbor are currently being evacuated due to the Sky Incident brush fire, the safety and wellbeing of our guests and team members is our top priority.