Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anchoral

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-choral
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Resembling or having the character of an anchor.

Example Sentences

"Various points settled, we hove anchor, or rather hauled up the block of granite doing anchoral duty, and, with the usual hubbub and strife, the orders which every man gives and the advice which no man takes, we paddled in half an hour to a shingly and grassy creek defended by a sand-pit and backed by a few tall massive trees."
"Love may be a planet. It may be something ancoral, something firm and steady and muzzled by its own gravity."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ancorālis, from Latin ancora (“anchor”). Equivalent to anchor + -al.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ancora

Inflected Forms

more anchoral (comparative) most anchoral (superlative) ancoral (alternative)

Questions

What does anchoral mean?: Resembling or having the character of an anchor.
Where does anchoral come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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