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. Sanita Belgrave:

   Do not harbour DOUBTS because Difficult Obstacles Ultimately Birth Tough Soldiers.

2. Premier Mark McGowan:

   This ship needs to leave immediately, our position is clear, we are not going to have a Sydney Harbour fiasco on our watch.

3. Commissioner Vera Jourova:

   In the new Safe Harbour there will be a suspension clause, saying that under concrete conditions we are going to suspend (it).

4. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

5. The CNIL:

   Facebook transfers personal data to the United States on the basis of Safe Harbour, although the Court of Justice of the European Union declared invalid such transfers in its ruling of October 6, 2015.