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ANCHORAGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of anchoringplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("anchorage" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Derivation:

anchor (secure a vessel with an anchor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place for vessels to anchorplay

Synonyms:

anchorage; anchorage ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("anchorage" is a kind of...):

area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anchorage"):

berth; moorage; mooring; slip (a place where a craft can be made fast)

roads; roadstead (a partly sheltered anchorage)

Holonyms ("anchorage" is a part of...):

harbor; harbour; haven; seaport (a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo)

Derivation:

anchor (secure a vessel with an anchor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A city in south central Alaskaplay

Example:

Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Anchorage" is a part of...):

AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A fee for anchoringplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("anchorage" is a kind of...):

fee (a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The condition of being secured to a baseplay

Example:

the mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("anchorage" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Credits

 Context examples: 

And I began to run towards the anchorage, my terrors all forgotten, while close at my side the marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

By this time the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow—the last rays, I remember, falling through a glade of the wood and shining bright as jewels on the flowery mantle of the wreck.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Behind me was the sea, in front the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“I'll tell you one thing,” says I: “I'm not going back to Captain Kidd's anchorage. I mean to get into North Inlet and beach her quietly there.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a sad sight, but it showed us that the anchorage was calm.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Aye, here it is: 'Capt. Kidd's Anchorage'—just the name my shipmate called it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A peculiar stagnant smell hung over the anchorage—a smell of sodden leaves and rotting tree trunks.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“The anchorage is on the south, behind an islet, I fancy?” asked the captain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw—clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spyglass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)




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