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means A sheltered place where ships can drop anchor and sit safely — and, as a proper noun, the Alaskan city that grew up around one such harbor.

from From 'anchor' (via Old French 'ancre', ultimately Latin 'ancora', borrowed from Greek 'ankyra' — related to words for a bend or hook, like the anchor's curved shape) plus the suffix '-age', which turns a thing into a place or state associated with it, as in 'orphanage' or 'storage'. So an 'anchorage' is literally 'anchor-place' — a stretch of water calm enough to hold a ship still. The Alaskan city took the name because its townsite began as a port and rail terminus where vessels anchored to unload construction supplies in the early 1900s.