Usually means: Safe docking area for boats.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word harbor:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. harbor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. harbor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. harbor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. harbor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. harbor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Harbor, harbor: Wordnik
  7. harbor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Harbor, harbor: Wiktionary
  9. harbor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. harbor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. harbor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. harbor: Dictionary.com
  13. harbor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. harbor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Harbor (America album), Harbor (disambiguation), Harbor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Harbor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. harbor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. harbor: Rhymezone
  19. harbor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. harbor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. harbor: Free Dictionary
  22. harbor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. harbor: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. harbor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. harbor: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harbor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. harbor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. harbor: Idioms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See harbored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Any place of shelter.
noun:  (countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
noun:  (countable, glassworking) A mixing box for materials.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
verb:  (transitive) To provide a harbor or safe place for.
verb:  (intransitive) To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
verb:  (transitive) To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
verb:  (transitive) To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
noun:  A surname, variant of Harbour.
noun:  A census-designated place in Curry County, Oregon, United States.

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