have
verb
have ownership or possession of
- “He owns three houses in Florida”
- “How many cars does she have?”
have a personal or business relationship with someone
- “have a postdoc”
- “have an assistant”
- “have a lover”
be confronted with
- “What do we have here?”
- “Now we have a fine mess”
get something; come into possession of
- “receive payment”
- “receive a gift”
- “receive letters from the front”
noun
Origin
From Middle English haven, from Old English habban (“to have”), from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have”), durative of *habjaną (“to lift, take up”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti, an imperfective formation to the root *kap- (“to take, seize, catch”).
Phrases
- auxiliary verb
- have a ball
- have a cow
- have a fall
- have a fine finger
- have a foot in the door
- have a good weekend
- have a lend of
- have against
- past tense
- perfect tense
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