Havens vs Heavens - What's the difference?
havens | heavens |
(haven)
A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(by extension) A place of safety; a refuge or sanctuary.
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(often with 'the') : the distant sky of the sun, moon, and stars.
* (William Shakespeare), (The Comedie of Errors) , I i 66:
* 1625 , Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes , I iv 77:
:: The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
* 1981 , E.R. Harrison, Cosmology , XII 250:
(religion) : the abode of God or the gods; the abode of the blessed departed.
* 1832 , Charles Coleman, The Mythology of the Hindus , XIII 220:
* 1906 July 30, Washington Post , 12 4:
(rare) : the near sky of the weather, etc.
(rare) the will of God or the gods, Providence.
* 1611 , (King James Bible), iv 26:
An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
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*:“Heavens! ” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
As a verb havens
is third-person singular of haven.As a noun heavens is
plural of lang=en: the distant sky of the sun, moon, and stars.As an interjection heavens is
an expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.As a proper noun Heavens is
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English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----haven
English
Noun
(en noun)- what shipping and what lading's in our haven
- their haven under the hill
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Synonyms
* refuge * sanctuary * zoarDerived terms
* tax havenAnagrams
* ----heavens
English
Noun
(head)- What obscured light the heauens did grant.
- The Heauens ...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.
- 1930 March, Nature , 179 2:
- In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
- Like the Buddhas, they
[ the Jains ] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.
- Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
- After that thou shalt haue]] [[known, knowen that the heauens doe rule.