Synonyms for harbor
har·bor

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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. Donald Houghton:

   It's just a one-of-a-kind thing, running a true steamboat in the Port of New Orleans with a busy harbor, showing people the Mississippi River.

2. Jamie Lloyd:

   Hamilton Harbor Yacht Club donates their staff and entire area just for the soldiers for the day.

3. Elizabeth Nixon:

   There are dead animals and gasoline in the water, the clinic was so bad the toilet bowls were overflowing. The sewers are coming up... Bodies are in the harbor. It seems like we're in a movie.

4. Barbara Shipley:

   Barbara Shipley, from the International Trade Workers Union, said. ' The men have been reportedly floating in the harbor for over a month after an asphalt delivery. They’re hungry. They’re tired. They’re dirty. They want to get paid and they want to go home. They want to see their families. Their families are all very concerned, i’ve been told they’re fishing off the side of the vessel.

5. Stephen DiMare:

   I think people enjoy visiting St. Augustine because it is quintessentially quaint, it’s European with tight buildings and narrow streets; it sits in a harbor with a coquina fort that looks past the barrier islands toward the open ocean.