"In sight of Troy lies Tenedos, an isle / renowned and rich, while Priam held command, / now a mere bay and roadstead fraught with guile. / Thus far they sailed, and on the lonely strand / lay hid,"
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Roadstead
//ˈɹəʊdstɛd//
Synonyms for "roadstead" (53 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- рейд noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Czech
1 entries- rejda noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Danish
1 entries- red noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Dutch
1 entries- rede noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Finnish
2 entries- redi noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
- reti noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
French
1 entries- rade noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Galician
2 entries- abra noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
- ancoradoiro noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
German
1 entries- Reede noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Greek
1 entries- ράδα noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Hebrew
1 entries- תַּחֲנַת עֲגִינָה noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Italian
1 entries- rada noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Macedonian
2 entries- котвиште noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
- сидриште noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Norman
1 entries- rade noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- red noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- red noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
- rei noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Polish
1 entries- reda noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Portuguese
1 entries- angra noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Romanian
1 entries- radă noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Russian
1 entries- рейд noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Slovak
1 entries- rejda noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Spanish
1 entries- rada noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Swedish
1 entries- redd noun (partly sheltered anchorage outside a harbour)
Sample sentences
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When the ship returns from its voyage, and comes to the roadstead to the harbor, the captain is obliged to give a statement to the commander of the artillery in that port as to how much gunpowder he has left.
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The shores of Protection island form on its south side, which is about two miles long, a most excellent roadstead, and a channel into port Discovery, near 2 miles wide on either side […]
Source: wiktionary
[…] I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.
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