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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishabord, froma-(“on”) +bord(“board, side of a ship”); equivalent toa- +‎board.

Pronunciation

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Sailorsaboard the USS O'Kane.

Adverb

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aboard (notcomparable)

  1. On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within arailway car.[from ca. 1350—1470][1]
    We all climbedaboard.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
      As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hopaboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on anXC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
  2. On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.[from late 19th c.][1]
    to sling a saddleaboard
  3. (baseball)On base.[from mid-20th c.][1]
    He doubled with two menaboard, scoring them both.
  4. Into a team, group, or company.[from mid-20th c.][1]
    The office manager welcomed himaboard.
  5. (nautical)Alongside.[from ca. 1350—1470][1]
    The ships came closeaboard to pass messages.
    The captain laid his shipaboard the enemy's ship.

Derived terms

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Translations

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on board
baseball—seeon base
nautical

Preposition

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aboard

  1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.[from ca. 1350—1470][1]
    We all wentaboard the ship.
    • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 2, page87:
      Conditions were horrendousaboard 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.
  2. Onto a horse.[from mid-20th c.][1]
  3. (obsolete) Across;athwart; alongside.[early 16th–late 17th c.][1]
    • 1591,Edmund Spenser,Virgil's Gnat:
      Nor iron bandsaboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast.

Derived terms

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Derived terms
  • haul the tacks aboard (something done when one is setting the courses of a ship)
  • keep the land aboard : to keep the land alongside one's ship, to hug the shore
  • lay (a ship) aboard : to place (a ship) close alongside (another ship) to fight it

Translations

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on board of
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References

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  1. ↑1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.7Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aboard”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 6.

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