0 an area of water next to the coast, often protected from the ocean by a thick wall, where ships and boats can shelter:
Our hotel room overlooked a pretty little fishing harbor.
1 to think about or feel something, usually over a long period:
2 to protect someone or something bad, especially by hiding that person or thing when the police are looking for him, her, or it:
to harbor a criminal
3 to contain the bacteria, etc. that can cause a disease to spread:
4 a protected area of water next to the land where ships and boats can be safely kept
5 to have in mind a thought or feeling, usually over a long period:
7 → harbour
He has a house down by the harbor.
The Central harbor area will be closed to all marine traffic from 3.45 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
The harbor walls need urgent reinforcement.
It was a pretty town with a picturesque harbor and well-preserved buildings.
In the harbor, the boats bobbed gently up and down on the water.
Subsequent scenes show teeming streets, construction sites, moving trains, and the bustling harbor.
These regions harbor many genes, and the task of undertaking fine mapping studies to find the risk variant or variants is onerous.
Commoners were not the only ones who harbored dubious suspicions.
