Havre

See also: havre, hâvre, and Le Havre

English

Etymology

From French Le Havre (“The Harbor”), q.v.

Proper noun

Havre

1. (imprecise) Alternative form of Le Havre, an important port of northern France.
   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:

     Give me that paper, Hallemeier. [Reads]: "The first national Robot organization has been founded at Havre, and has issued an appeal to the Robots throughout the world."

2. A city, the county seat of Hill County, Montana, United States.

See also

• Havre de Grace

Anagrams

• Haver, haver