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aboard

UK/əˈbɔːd//əˈbɔɹd/

aboard adverb: on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.

aboard: on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car
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Adverb

aboard (not comparable)

  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
    • We all climbed aboard.
    • As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
  2. On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
    • to sling a saddle aboard
  3. On base.
    • He doubled with two men aboard, scoring them both.
  4. Into a team, group, or company.
    • The office manager welcomed him aboard.
  5. Alongside.
    • The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
    • The captain laid his ship aboard the enemy's ship.

Preposition

aboard

  1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
    • We all went aboard the ship.
    • Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87
  2. Onto a horse.
  3. (obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
    • Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat

aboard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

aboard in Hindi

on board
अबौड abauḍ

aboard in Tamil

கப்பலில், கப்பல் மீது, வானூர்திமீது, வானூர்தியில், கலத்தில், ஊர்தியில்

aboard in Urdu

پہلو با پہلو, جہاز, کشتی, ریل پر سوار

aboard in Bengali

জাহাজে, গাড়িতে আরোহণ করে
More languagesFewer languages
aboard in Arabic
عَلَى ظَهْر ʕalā ẓahr, عَلَى مَتْن ʕalā matn
aboard in Persian
روی یا داخل

Examples of aboard in a sentence

  • As we all climbed aboard, the little boat sat down low in the water.
  • He said that the strange beings then took him aboard their unidentified flying object and examined his body.
  • Lucy, loved by everyone in her family, refused to detrain and insisted on staying aboard for the entire journey.

All 40 example sentences with aboard

Origin of aboard

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

Words formed from aboard

Words that rhyme with aboard

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Questions about aboard

What does aboard mean?
Aboard means on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
What is aboard in Hindi?
Aboard in Hindi is अबौड (abauḍ). See Aboard meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is aboard?
Aboard can be an adverb or a preposition.
How do you pronounce aboard?
Aboard is pronounced /əˈbɔːd/ (UK).

Words near aboard in the dictionary

  1. abnumerable
  2. abo
  3. ABO group
  4. Abo-abo
  5. aboad
  6. aboard
  7. aboat
  8. abob
  9. abobioside
  10. abocclusion
  11. abocclusions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aboard (page history and authors); aboard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aboard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aboard (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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