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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. the condition of being secured to a base;
- Example: "the plant needs a firm anchorage"
- Example: "the mother provides emotional anchorage for the entire family"

2. a fee for anchoring;

3. a city in south central Alaska;
- Example: "Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska"

4. place for vessels to anchor;
[syn: anchorage, anchorage ground]

5. the act of anchoring; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anchorage \An"chor*age\, n.
   1. The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.
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   2. A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a
      hold for an anchor.
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   3. The set of anchors belonging to a ship.
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   4. Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the
      anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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   5. Something on which one may depend for security; ground of
      trust.
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   6. A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. --Johnson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Anchorage \An"cho*rage\, n.
   Abode of an anchoret.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Anchorage, AK (Borough, FIPS 20)
  Location: 61.17837 N, 149.18642 W
  Population (1990): 226338 (94153 housing units)
  Area: 4396.9 sq km (land), 683.4 sq km (water)
Anchorage, AK (city, FIPS 3000)
  Location: 61.17837 N, 149.18642 W
  Population (1990): 226338 (94153 housing units)
  Area: 4396.9 sq km (land), 683.4 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 99501, 99502, 99503, 99504, 99507, 99508, 99515, 99516, 99517, 99518
Anchorage, KY (city, FIPS 1504)
  Location: 38.27022 N, 85.53810 W
  Population (1990): 2082 (684 housing units)
  Area: 7.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 40223


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "anchorage":
   admission, admission fee, anchor, anchorage ground, basin, berth,
   bourn, breakwater, brokerage, bulkhead, carfare, cellarage, charge,
   charges, chuck, colonization, cover charge, demand, destination,
   dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, dues, embankment, entrance fee,
   establishment, exaction, exactment, fare, fee, fixation,
   foundation, goal, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, hire, hook,
   inauguration, initiation, installation, installment, investiture,
   jetty, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, last stop,
   license fee, lodgment, marina, mole, mooring, mooring buoy,
   moorings, mudhook, peopling, pier, pilotage, plantation,
   population, port, portage, protected anchorage, quay, riding, road,
   roads, roadstead, salvage, scot, scot and lot, seaport, seawall,
   settlement, settling, shipyard, shot, slip, stop, stopping place,
   storage, terminal, terminal point, terminus, toll, towage, wharf,
   wharfage