Dictionary Entry
anchorage
anchorage is a 9-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
- 2noun
A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
- 3noun
The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
- 4noun
Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
- 5noun
Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
- 6noun
A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
- 7noun
Abode of an anchoret.
- 8noun
the act of anchoring
- 9noun
place for vessels to anchor
- 10noun
a city in south central Alaska
"Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"
- 11noun
a fee for anchoring
- 12noun
the condition of being secured to a base
"the plant needs a firm anchorage"
"the mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family"
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