aboard
pronunciation
How to pronounce aboard in British English:
UK [əˈbɔːd]
How to pronounce aboard in American English:
US [əˈbɔːrd]
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- Adverb:
- on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle
- on first or second or third base
- side by side
- part of a group
Word Origin
- aboard (adv.)
- late 14c., probably in most cases from Old French à bord, from à "on" + bord "board," from Frankish *bord or a similar Germanic source (see board (n.2)); the "boarding" or sides of a vessel extended to the ship itself. The usual Middle English expression was within shippes borde. The call all aboard! as a warning to passengers is attested from 1838.
Antonym
Example
- 1. The navy officially lifted the ban on women serving aboard submarines in the spring .
- 2. It was at this time , while serving aboard the hms majestic , that his father died .
- 3. But this merely delayed the inevitable an order to come aboard the ladny .
- 4. A second bomb , intended to blow up another air india 747 on the same day , detonated prematurely in a luggage facility in tokyo before being loaded aboard .
- 5. On a windy morning in february , widder and six colleagues climbed aboard a catamaran , its motors gurgling in the indian river lagoon .