Anchorage

Quick meaning: Anchorage is a noun meaning (nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.

Meaning

(nautical) A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge.

More Meanings

1. (nautical) A fee charged for anchoring.
2. That into which something is anchored or fastened.
3. (medicine) The surgical fixation of prolapsed organs.
4. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
5. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
6. The retreat of a hermit, or anchorite.
7. (figurative) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.

Example Sentences

the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge

Anchorage is five pounds a night outside the harbour.

And yet 'twas by such braggart vaunts as these Thou broughtst thee to this woeful anchorage.

Word Forms

• anchorages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include berthage, mooring, anchoring, berthing, anchor, berth.

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