aboard
Use Aboard in a sentence
adverb
1.
on board; on, in, or into a ship, train, airplane, bus, etc.: to step aboard.
2.
alongside; to the side.
3.
Baseball. on base: a homer with two aboard.
4.
into a group as a new member: The office manager welcomed him aboard.
preposition
5.
on board of; on, in, or into: to come aboard a ship.
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Aboard
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
6.
all aboard!, (as a warning to passengers entering or planning to enter a train, bus, boat, etc., just before starting) Everyone get on!
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| —adv, —adj, —prep | |
| 1. | on, in, onto, or into (a ship, train, aircraft, etc) |
| 2. | nautical alongside (a vessel) |
| 3. | all aboard! a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
aboard
late 15c., from O.Fr. à "on" + board "board," from Frank. *bord (see board); the "boarding" or sides of a vessel extended to the ship itself. The usual M.E. expression was within shippes borde. The call all aboard! as a warning to passengers is attested from 1838.
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Example sentences
He and his crew hurled homemade grenades onto the sloop and rushed aboard.
The air aboard commercial jetliners is considerably cleaner than almost everybody gives it credit for.
His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
All those bus stop and go's and shuttling around late at night w/ two people aboard drive down efficiency.
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