Aboard Definition

ə-bôrd
adverb
On board a ship, train, aircraft, or other passenger vehicle.
American Heritage
On board; on, in, or into a ship, airplane, etc.
Webster's New World
At the side; alongside.
American Heritage
Alongside.
The sailboat passed our ship close aboard.
Webster's New World
In or into a group, organization, or business.
Brought aboard two new designers.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
preposition
On board of; on; in.
Webster's New World
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
We all went aboard the ship.
Wiktionary
Onto a horse. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]
Wiktionary

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Origin of Aboard

  • From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”). (Equivalent to a- +‎ board.)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English abord a- on a–2 bord ship (from Old English bord)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aboard Sentence Examples

  • Climbing aboard, he slapped the reins to the team.

  • With other captives, John Knox was put aboard a French galley.

  • Once aboard my flight I spent the next several hours squeezed between a talkative sailor and a woman with a fussy child.

  • Pedro aboard the flagship. In July they reached Portugal and occupied Oporto, but the expected constitutionalist rising did not take place.

  • He had aboard his two ships, the " Lady Nelson " of 60 tons and the whaler " Albion " of 3 06 tons, three officials, a lance-corporal and seven privates of the New South Wales Corps, six free men and twenty-five convicts, together with an adequate supply of live stock, and landed at Risdon, near Hobart, where he was joined shortly afterwards by fifteen soldiers and forty-two convicts.

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Words Starting With

AABABO

Words Ending With

DRDARD

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aboard

Words Starting With A and Ending With D

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With D