anchorage
Speech parts
1. anchorage - Noun
2. Anchorage - Proper noun
Meaning
The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.
Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust.
A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties.
Abode of an anchoret.
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Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.
The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused them, and the East abhorred. No anchorage the known world could afford.
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Luck has a slender anchorage.