MEANING
A place that provides safety, welcome, or relief from difficulty.
Use it for
Welcoming refuge; relief from pressure; protection within a larger hostile contextContrast the place's relative safety with conditions outside it.
Words that belong together
- safe haven
- haven of peace
- haven for newcomers
On the page
The reading room was a haven for students whose homes offered no quiet.
A trusted café became a haven for newly arrived workers.
She wanted the community center to be a haven, not another place that required proof of belonging.
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Word forms
- Base
- haven
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Usually approving; may be literal protection or comparative ease. A tax haven is a specialized financial compound, not the selected sense. Plural: havens. No other inflection applies to this noun.
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