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haven

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noun/ˈheɪvən/
  1. 1

    A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.dated

    • And the stately ships go on / To their haven under the hill;
  2. 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.
  3. 3

    A peaceful or tranquil place.

  4. 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.

verb/ˈheɪvən/
  1. 1

    To put into, or provide with a haven.

verb
  1. 1

    plural simple present of haveform-ofobsoleteplural

    • The craftie Badger, the Watry Otter / Whome Howndes purſue, till they hauen got her / Theſe Beaſtes been of higheſt Regard and Price / To pleaſure Princes and to murder vice.

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