Definition of have

"have" in the noun sense

1. rich person, wealthy person, have

a person who possesses great material wealth

"have" in the verb sense

1. have, have got, hold

have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense

"She has $1,000 in the bank"

"He has got two beautiful daughters"

"She holds a Master's degree from Harvard"

2. have, feature

have as a feature

"This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"

3. experience, receive, have, get

go through (mental or physical states or experiences

"get an idea"

"experience vertigo"

"get nauseous"

"receive injuries"

"have a feeling"

4. own, have, possess

have ownership or possession of

"He owns three houses in Florida"

"How many cars does she have?"

5. get, let, have

cause to move cause to be in a certain position or condition

"He got his squad on the ball"

"This let me in for a big surprise"

"He got a girl into trouble"

6. consume, ingest, take in, take, have

serve oneself to, or consume regularly

"Have another bowl of chicken soup!"

"I don't take sugar in my coffee"

7. have

have a personal or business relationship with someone

"have a postdoc"

"have an assistant"

"have a lover"

8. hold, throw, have, make, give

organize or be responsible for

"hold a reception"

"have, throw, or make a party"

"give a course"

9. have

have left

"I have two years left"

"I don't have any money left"

"They have two more years before they retire"

10. have

be confronted with

"What do we have here?"

"Now we have a fine mess"

11. have, experience

undergo

"The stocks had a fast run-up"

12. have

suffer from be ill with

"She has arthritis"

13. induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make

cause to do cause to act in a specified manner

"The ads induced me to buy a VCR"

"My children finally got me to buy a computer"

"My wife made me buy a new sofa"

14. accept, take, have

receive willingly something given or offered

"The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"

"I won't have this dog in my house!"

"Please accept my present"

15. receive, have

get something come into possession of

"receive payment"

"receive a gift"

"receive letters from the front"

16. suffer, sustain, have, get

undergo (as of injuries and illnesses

"She suffered a fracture in the accident"

"He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"

"She got a bruise on her leg"

"He got his arm broken in the scuffle"

17. have, get, make

achieve a point or goal

"Nicklaus had a 70"

"The Brazilian team got 4 goals"

"She made 29 points that day"

18. give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have

cause to be born

"My wife had twins yesterday!"

19. take, have

have sex with archaic use

"He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable"

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Quotations for have

Pitchers have ears. [ William Shakespeare ]

Cowards have no luck. [ Elizabeth Kulman ]

Death will have his day. [ William Shakespeare ]

All men have their price. [ Ascribed to Walpole ]

Even cities have their graves. [ Longfellow ]

I have Immortal longings In me. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have all I have ever enjoyed. [ Bettine ]

I am not now That which I have been. [ Byron ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

Few have wealth, but all must have a home. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Never spend your money before you have it.

Circumstances over which I have no control. [ Duke of Wellington ]

To have prayed well is to have striven well.

The little birds have God for their caterer. [ Cervantes ]

It is natural to covet just what we have not. [ Achilles Poincelot ]

Judges and senates have been bought for gold. [ Pope ]

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. [ Shakespeare ]

How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed. [ Mrs. C. H. W. Esling ]

All men have desires, but all men have not love.

He that can have patience can have what he will. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Children have more need of models than of critics. [ Joubert ]

Men that have much business must have much pardon. [ Proverb ]

I will not want when I have it, and have it not too. [ Proverb ]

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. [ Sheridan ]

Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness. [ Whittier ]

Wise men have but few confidants and cunning ones none. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. [ Dr. Johnson ]

All may have, if they dare try, a glorious life or grave. [ Herbert ]

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved. [ Schiller ]

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. [ Alexander Smith ]

You have fouled yourself, and now would have me clean you. [ Proverb ]

You may have a good memory but have a confounded judgment. [ Proverb ]

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. [ Jesus ]

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. [ Ouida ]

Drink wine, and have the gout, drink none, and have it too. [ Proverb ]

Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains. [ W. B. Clulow ]

The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always. [ Jesus ]

We have but one instant to live, and we have hopes for years. [ Flechier ]

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [ Horace ]

We can't afford to be morbid. We have to have cheerful hearts. [ H. E. Rives ]

It would have been pity to have, spoiled two houses with them. [ Proverb ]

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. [ Thoreau ]

Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains, for he had none. [ William Shakespeare ]

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. [ Bible ]

I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. [ Publius Syrus ]

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. [ Beaconsfield ]

Bees that have honey in their mouths, have stings in their tails. [ Proverb ]

Women have fewer vices than men; but they have stronger prejudices. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]

You will never have a friend if you must have one without failings. [ Proverb ]

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. [ Swift ]

We wish to have what we have not, and what we have ceases to please. [ Monvel ]

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. [ Lamartine ]

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so who would greatly win. [ Byron ]

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share comes to. [ Proverb ]

I have often thought of death, and I find it the least of all evils. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. [ Shakespeare ]

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. [ Tennyson ]

When you have counted your cards, you will find you have little left. [ Proverb ]

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. [ Fuller ]

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have. [ Greville ]

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

They have need of a canny cook that have but one egg for their dinner. [ Proverb ]

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]

Highways and streets have not all the thieves; shops have ten for one. [ Proverb ]

Many have lived on a pedestal, who will never have a statue when dead. [ Beranger ]

Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. [ Juv ]

Cold natures have only recollections; tender natures have remembrances. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

We have not only multiplied diseases, bnt we have made them more fatal. [ Rush ]

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. [ Alfred de Musset ]

I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the hazard of the die. [ Shakespeare ]

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. [ Emerson ]

Women have no appreciation of good looks. At least, good women have not. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

They that have voice of lions and act of hares, - are they not monsters? [ William Shakespeare ]

No condition so low but may have hopes, none so high but may have fears. [ Proverb ]

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune. [ Shenstone ]

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]

Before decay's effacing fingers have swept the lines where beauty lingers. [ Byron ]

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder. [ Rollin ]

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. [ Hamerton ]

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [ Ausonius ]

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]

Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I have given suck, and know how tender it is to love the babe that milks me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. [ Goldsmith ]

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [ William Shakespeare ]

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys: superior wisdom is superior bliss. [ Young ]

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. [ Rivarol ]

You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! [ Stanislaus ]

Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]

He who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have. [ Manuel ]

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have half loved. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

have in Scrabble®

The word have is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters have:

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have in Words With Friends™

The word have is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters have:

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The 62 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In have

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Words within the letters of have

2 letter words in have (4 words)

4 letter words in have (1 word)

have + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving have

Shorter words in have

ha

Longer words containing have

behave behaved illbehaved

behave behaved misbehaved

behave behaved wellbehaved

behave behaver behavers misbehavers

behave behaver misbehaver misbehavers

behave behaves misbehaves

behave misbehave misbehaved

behave misbehave misbehaver misbehavers

behave misbehave misbehaves

havelock havelocks

haven havenots

haven havens

haven shaven cleanshaven

haven shaven reshaven

haven shaven unshaven

haversack haversacks

haves behaves misbehaves

haves shaves aftershaves

haves shaves reshaves

shave aftershave aftershaves

shave reshave reshaved

shave reshave reshaven

shave reshave reshaves

shave shaveable

shave shaved reshaved

shave shaved unshaved

shave shaven cleanshaven

shave shaven reshaven

shave shaven unshaven

shave shaver shavers

shave shaves aftershaves

shave shaves reshaves