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shipboard

shipboard adjective: occurring or existing on board a ship.

Adjective

shipboard (not comparable)

  1. Occurring or existing on board a ship.
  2. (figuratively) casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)

Noun

shipboard (plural shipboards)

  1. The side of a ship.

Forms of shipboard

pluralshipboards

Origin of shipboard

Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.

Questions about shipboard

What does shipboard mean?
Shipboard means occurring or existing on board a ship.
What part of speech is shipboard?
Shipboard can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near shipboard in the dictionary

  1. ship-to-air
  2. ship-to-ground
  3. ship-to-ship
  4. Shipageddon
  5. Shipaulovi
  6. shipboard
  7. shipboards
  8. shipborne
  9. shipbound
  10. Shipbourne
  11. shipboy

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