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What is another word for harbours?

Pronunciation: [hˈɑːbəz] (IPA)

Harbours have several synonyms that can be used interchangeably depending on the context. For instance, the term port refers to a place where boats, ships, and other water vessels can dock and load or unload cargo and passengers. Dock is another synonym that is commonly used to signify a part of the shoreline that receives and fosters vessels. Quay, on the other hand, represents a pier or wharf that has been purposefully constructed along the seashore or a riverbank. Finally, the term marina refers to a harbour where yachts and pleasure boats are harboured or moored. These synonyms signify places for watercraft to berth, load, and unload their cargo, passengers, or visitors.
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  • Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
    George W. Bush
  • If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
    Dick Cheney
  • There is nothing at all that remains: nor any house; nor any castle, however strong; nor any love, however tender and sound; nor any comradeship among men, however hardy. Nothing remains but the things of which I will not speak, because we have spoken enough of them already during these four days. But I who am old will give you advice, which is this—to consider chiefly from now onwards those permanent things which are, as it were, the shores of this age and the harbours of our glittering and pleasant but dangerous and wholly changeful sea.
    Hilaire Belloc
  • If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.
    George Orwell

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