Home › Words › M › mooringmooringmooring means A place to moor a vessel.EtymologyNamed after the moorland of the Risem Moor where it is spoken.nounA place to moor a vessel.e.g.“Then did the comet break loose from his moorings and the eclipse roamed about the sky, and down on the earth did Death’s three children—Famine, Pestilence, and Drought—come out to feed.” — 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 31:The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.nameA mainland dialect of the North Frisian languageA surname.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.moorage 79% match — The act of mooring. vs mooring →berthage 72% match — A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor. vs mooring →moorer 72% match — The person who moors a vessel vs mooring →anchor 65% match — A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. vs mooring →anchorage 61% match — A harbor, river, or offshore area that can accommodate a ship at anchor, either for quarantine, queuing, or discharge. vs mooring →berth 59% match — Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space in the water for a ship or other vessel to lie at anchor or manoeuvre without getting in the way of other vessels, or colliding into rocks or the shore.; A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor. vs mooring →wharf 58% match — An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore. vs mooring →bollard 57% match — A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to a wharf, dock, or the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines or towlines are secured. vs mooring →