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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.5 / 2 votes

  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 Antonyms1.0 / 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 WordNet2.7 / 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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. harbornoun

    Synonyms:
    refuge, shelter, asylum, retreat, port, haven, destination

PPDB, the paraphrase database4.5 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "harbor":

    port, harbour, harper

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How to use harbor in a sentence?

  1. David Jones:

    We began working on this about six months ago, twenty-five years ago President Bush spoke at the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, as the sitting president, and we have a copy of the speech in our auditorium here on a continuous loop.

  2. 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.

  3. Amy Klobuchar:

    To criminally prosecute a child not old enough to go to the school prom makes no sense, you get much more cooperation from a victim if you give them a safe harbor, a place to live, job training, an education.

  4. John Barrasso:

    Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with ecoterrorists, she lied to this committee, and she continues to harbor extremist views most Americans find reprehensible, she is thoroughly disqualified from holding the important position of director of the Bureau of Land Management.

  5. William Schaffner:

    They're protected against a paralytic disease, but they can still harbor the virus and spread it to others. And that's the circumstance we have now in New York, so you could get essentially the entire community carrying this virus in their intestines, but they don't even know it's there.


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