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noun
- (context, obsolete, uncountable) shelter, Shelter, refuge.
- A place of shelter or refuge.
- The neighbourhood is a well-known for petty thieves.
- (obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
- Late C14: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin"s Tale", Canterbury Tales
- A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
- The city has an excellent natural .
Translations: - French: port
- German: Hafen
- Spanish: puerto
verb
- (transitive) To provide shelter or refuge for.
- The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now only petty thieves.
Translations: Etymology: Apparently from unattested Old English - herebeorg (hereOld English, here "army" + gebeorg, Äebeorg "shelter"), or directly from (or influenced by) cognate Old Norse herbergi. Cognate with Dutch herberg, German Herberge "hospice", Swedish hírbírge.
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