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- Dictionaryhave/hav/
verb
- 1. possess, own, or hold: "he had a new car and a boat" Similar Opposite
- 2. experience; undergo: "I went to a few parties and had a good time" Similar
auxiliary
- 1. used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood: "I have finished"
noun
- 1. people with plenty of money and possessions: informal "an increasing gap between the haves and have-nots"
- 2. a swindle. informal, dated British
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To have something means you possess it somehow. You may have a big house or have a lot of freckles on your nose. English gives us a lot of ways to have — this is a common word. You can have brown eyes and black hair, have the flu, have a red bike, and have strong feelings about football.
1. to be in material possession of; own: he has two cars. 2. to possess as a characteristic quality or attribute: he has dark hair. 3. to receive, take, or obtain: she had a present from him; have a look. 4. to hold or entertain in the mind: to have an idea.