different between harbor vs scold

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

Etymology

The noun is from Middle English scold(e), skald(e), first attested in the 12th or 13th century (as scold, scolde, skolde, skald). The verb is from Middle English scolden, first attested in the late 1300s. Most dictionaries derive the verb from the noun and say the noun is probably from Old Norse skald (“poet”) (cognate with Icelandic skáld (“poet, scop”)), as skalds sometimes wrote insulting poems, though another view is that the Norse and English words are cognate to each other and to Old High German skeldan, Old Dutch skeldan, all inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeldan? (“scold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??ld/, [sk???d]
• (US) IPA^(key): /sko?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Noun

scold (plural scolds)

1. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     A ?claunderous tunge, a tunge of a ?kolde,
     Worketh more mi?chiefe than can be tolde;
     That, if I wi?t not to be controlde,
     Yet ?omwhat to ?ay I dare well be bolde,
     How ?ome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 196]:

     “Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.

Alternative forms

• scould, scolde (obsolete)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:shrew

Related terms

• scold's bridle

Translations

Verb

scold (third-person singular simple present scolds, present participle scolding, simple past and past participle scolded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
   • 1813, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

     A week elapsed before she could see Elizabeth without scolding her —
2. (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
3. Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
4. Misconstruction of scald

Derived terms

• outscold

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:criticize

Translations

References

Anagrams

• clods, clos'd, colds