different between harbor vs cove

English

Alternative forms

• harbour (Commonwealth)
• herberwe, herborough (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??b?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??b?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English herber, herberge, from Old English herebeorg (“shelter, lodgings, quarters”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army shelter, refuge”) (compare West Frisian herberch (“inn”), Dutch herberg (“inn”), German Herberge), from *harjaz (“army”) + *berg? (“protection”), equivalent to Old English here (“army, host”) + beorg (“defense, protection, refuge”). Cognate with Old Norse herbergi (“a harbour; a room”) (whence Icelandic herbergi), Dutch herberg, German Herberge (“inn, hostel, shelter”), Swedish härbärge. Compare also French auberge (“hostel”). More at here, harry, borrow and bury. Doublet of harbinger

Noun

harbor (countable and uncountable, plural harbors) (American spelling)

1. (countable) Any place of shelter.

2. (countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.

   A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return - Sarah Orne Jewett

3. (countable, glassworking) A mixing box for materials.
4. (obsolete, countable) A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.

   • To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe

5. (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.

Alternative forms

• harborough (obsolete)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: harbor
• ? Marshallese: aba
• ? Welsh: harbwr

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English herberwen, herber?en, from Middle English herebeorgian (“to take up one's quarters, lodge”), from the noun (see above).

Verb

harbor (third-person singular simple present harbors, present participle harboring, simple past and past participle harbored) (American spelling)

1. (transitive) To provide a harbor or safe place for.

2. (intransitive) To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.

3. (transitive) To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
   • 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion

     This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.

4. (transitive) To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

Derived terms

• harborer

Translations

See also

• haven
• dock

References

• harbor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “harbor” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “harbor”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Cebuano

Etymology

From English harbor, from Middle English herberwen, herber?en, from Middle English herebeorgian (“to take up one's quarters, lodge”),

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: har?bor

Verb

harbor

1. (slang) to appropriate another person's property

Noun

harbor

1. (slang) appropriation; an act or instance of appropriating

Derived terms

• harbor

Descendants

• Cebuano: harbat

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?v
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?v/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• Rhymes: -??v
• Homophone: Cobh

Etymology 1

From Middle English cove, from Old English cofa (“chamber; den”), from Proto-Germanic *kubô. Cognate with German Koben, Swedish kova. This word has probably survived as long as it has due to its coincidental phonetic resemblence to the unrelated word "cave".

Noun

cove (plural coves)

1. (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern. [from 9th c.]
2. (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling. [from 16th c.]
3. A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds. [from 16th c.]
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     secret coves and noukes

4. (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
5. A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain. [from 19th c.]
6. (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship. [from 19th c.]
7. (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level. [from 19th c.]

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

cove (third-person singular simple present coves, present participle coving, simple past and past participle coved)

1. (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
   • 1779, Henry Swinburne, Travels through Spain

     The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.

Etymology 2

Britain ante-1570. From Romani kodo (“this one, him”), perhaps change in consonants due to lower class th-fronting, or Romani kova (“that person”).

Noun

cove (plural coves)

1. (Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.
2. (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.

Synonyms

• (man): See Thesaurus:man
• (friend): See Thesaurus:friend

Antonyms

• (man): covess, mort (specific antonyms)
• (man): See Thesaurus:woman (general antonyms)
• (friend): See Thesaurus:enemy

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

Compare French couver, Italian covare. See covey.

Verb

cove (third-person singular simple present coves, present participle coving, simple past and past participle coved)

1. To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.

Anagrams

• Voce

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cophinus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kóphinos, “basket”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?k?.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?k?.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?.ve/

Noun

cove m (plural coves)

1. A large basket

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko.ve/
• Hyphenation: có?ve

Noun

cove f

1. plural of cova

Anagrams

• voce