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# harbour

«harbour» in Mova's school dictionary: **a place by the sea where boats and ships stay safe from…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (harbour, harbours; US spelling harbor); verb (harbour, harbours, harboured, harbouring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A harbour is a place by the sea where boats and ships stay safe from waves and storms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#m1)

2) To harbour someone is to hide or keep them, often someone hiding from others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#m2)

3) To harbour a feeling is to keep it for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a place where boats are counted, arrive or leave; boats arriving add, boats leaving take away. In geography: harbours are on coasts, often in a bay; Sydney Harbour. In stories: ships sail out of the harbour, pirates hide in a harbour. Phrases: in the harbour, leave the harbour, sail into the harbour, harbour wall.

### examples

- There are 25 boats in the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x1)
- 7 boats left the harbour in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x2)
- 4 ships came into the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x3)
- How many boats are in the harbour now? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x4)
- The fishing boats returned to the harbour before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x5)
- We walked along the harbour wall and watched the seals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x6)
- Sydney Harbour has a famous bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x7)
- The ship stayed in the harbour until the wind calmed down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x8)
- The next day the Swallow flew down to the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/#x9)

### note

UK, Irish, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand spelling «harbour»; US spelling «harbor». A place: boats arriving add, boats leaving take away. No clue by itself. Safety: do not play on harbour walls or jump into the water there.

### In the corpora

- [Cities grew at useful spots: where a river could be bridged, where a harbour was sheltered, where trade routes met.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/4/)
- [Most great cities grew at useful spots: river crossings, natural harbours, estuaries or meeting points of trade routes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/20/)
- [Never play near harbour edges, quays or mooring ropes; the water is deep and cold and ropes can snap tight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/24-ships-ports-and-submarines/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «harbour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/harbour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.