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Roadstead

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A sheltered offshore anchorage area for ships.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A partly-sheltered anchorage outside a harbour.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An anchorage off shore. Same as road, 4.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as road, 5.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a partly sheltered anchorage

Word Usage

"We were all that afternoon and night, and part of the following day, descending the main channel of the Volga, and it was past noon before we reached the Nine Feet Station, for so they call the roadstead above which vessels of more than nine feet draught dare not venture."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

anchorage ground anchorage

Variant

road

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

anchorage

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

harbors anchorage esplanade airstrip scoriae haven sea wall buoy