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havens

havens is the plural of haven.

havens is the third-person singular simple present indicative of haven.

Meaning of haven

Noun

haven (plural havens)

  1. (dated, literal) A 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. A 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.

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Questions about havens

What is havens the plural of?
Havens is the plural of haven.

Words near havens in the dictionary

  1. Havengore Island
  2. Havenhouse
  3. havening
  4. havenless
  5. havenlike
  6. havens
  7. Havenstreet
  8. Havenstreet and Ashey
  9. havent
  10. Havenview
  11. havenward

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