Definitions for Anchorage

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Anchorage an·chor·age

Spelling: [ang-ker-ij]

IPA: /ˈæŋ kər ɪdʒ/

Anchorage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in Anchorage (aaceghnor).

Definitions for Anchorage

noun

1. that portion of a harbor or area outside a harbor suitable for anchoring or in which ships are permitted to anchor.
2. a charge for occupying such an area.
3. the act of anchoring or the state of being anchored.
4. that to which anything is fastened.
5. a means of anchoring or making fast.
6. something that can be relied on:
7. (in a suspension bridge) a massive masonry or concrete construction securing a cable at each end.
8. Dentistry. an abutment. the locking in of a tooth filling by means of an undercut.
9. a seaport in S Alaska: earthquake 1964.

Origin of Anchorage

First recorded in 1400-50, anchorage is from the late Middle English word ankerage. See anchor, -age

Examples for Anchorage

But in many ways, the route from anchorage to Nome was almost the easy part.

The yacht had gone off to her anchorage, and we had to wait some time for a boat.

It pushed its way to the water at her very feet, and chose that as its anchorage.

When: July 18-19 Getting there: There are daily flights to Cordova from both anchorage and Seattle (via Juneau).

Those were the last words Charlo Greene said as a reporter for KTVA TV in anchorage, Alaska.

The anchorage is protected from all winds except those from the south-east.

There ought to have been a tranquil bark in such an anchorage, and there was.

Why else should she move from her anchorage thus in the dead of night?

Soon Shawn will make another trip to anchorage, a place he described to Karen as "overrated," she says.

You see that play out in places like anchorage, the rape capital of the United States, where Native women are targeted in bars.