liveaboard
liveaboard adjective: of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.
Adjective
liveaboard (not comparable)
- Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.
- Of a person: living on board a boat.
Noun
liveaboard (plural liveaboards)
- A person who lives on a boat.
- “We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.1975, From Tiller to Typwriter: The Rudder, volume 91, page 227
- This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).1978, San Diego Magazine, page 110
- A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.
- Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too.1999, John Newman, Michael Newman, Scuba Diving & Snorkeling for Dummies, page 219
Forms of liveaboard
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Origin of liveaboard
From live + aboard.
Questions about liveaboard
- What does liveaboard mean?
- Liveaboard means of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.
- What part of speech is liveaboard?
- Liveaboard can be an adjective or a noun.
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