Synonyms for harbour
ˈhɑr bərhar·bour

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1. seaport, haven, harbor, harbournoun

   a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

   Synonyms:
   haven, harbor, seaport, oasis

2. harbor, harbournoun

   a place of refuge and comfort and security

   Synonyms:
   seaport, harbor, haven

3. harbor, harbourverb

   secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals)

   Synonyms:
   nurse, harbor, shield, entertain, hold

4. harbor, harbourverb

   keep in one's possession; of animals

   Synonyms:
   nurse, harbor, shield, entertain, hold

5. harbor, harbour, shieldverb

   hold back a thought or feeling about

   "She is harboring a grudge against him"

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

6. 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, 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, harbor, 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

Matched Categories

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "harbour":

   port, havre, seaport, harbours, harbor, cross-harbour, ports, haven, portuaire, seaports, wearing, seabed

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1. Commerce Penny Pritzker:

   I hope then that means we're done and we have resolved this problem because it is costing a lot of money predominantly to ... small and medium-sized businesses that depend on Safe Harbour.

2. Olafur Eliasson:

   One of the main sources of inspiration was for me my childhood in Iceland where the harbour,... where I spent a lot of time as my father was a sailor, sometimes filled up with boats so you could cross the harbour by going from one deck to the next.

3. Will Harbour:

   Will Harbour's very Russian in a way that Hopper's very American.

4. Catherine Novelli:

   We are very optimistic that we are going to be able to come to an agreement soon on Safe Harbour.

5. Fox News Parker:

   We know that terrorists based in Syria harbour... ambitions towards the UK - trying to direct attacks against our country, and exhorting extremists here to act independently.