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Definition: Aboard |
AboardAdverb1. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle. 2. (baseball) on first or second or third base; "Their second homer with Bob Allison aboard". 3. Side by side; "anchored close aboard another ship". 4. Part of a group; "Bill's been aboard for three years now". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | In or on a ship or other floating vessel. On the deck or in the hold of a ship. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Aboard He fell aboard of me - met me; abused me. A ship is said to fall aboard another when, being in motion it runs against the other. To go aboard is to embark, to go on the board or deck. Aboard main tack is to draw one of the lower corners of the main-sail down to the chess-tree. Figuratively, it means "to keep to the point." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Shipping | Referring to cargo being put, or laden, onto a means of conveyance. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AboardSynonyms: alongside (adv), on base (adv), onboard (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Departure | Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan. |
Interjection: begone!; (ejection); farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day! au revoir! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf wiedersehen! au plaisir de vous revoir! bon voyage! gluckliche Reise! vive valeque! | |
Presence | Adverb: here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home, afield; here there and everywhere; (space); in presence of, before; under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona. |
Ship | Adverb: afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Permission to come aboard, Captain Stubbing (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; writing credit: Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey, Tom Shadyac) This is one guy I'm gonna help aboard personally (The Last Voyage; writing credit: Andrew L. Stone) Jack, I know you'd just as soon climb aboard a man than a woman, wouldn't you (Score; writing credit: Jerry Douglas) Whatever it is you yanked me aboard with (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) Well, they're aboard, and I must say, Miss Case is quite lovely (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) | |
Lyrics | Aboard his ship he stops to stare (I Will Wait; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) On board I'm the captain, So climb aboard, (Come Sail Away; performing artist: STYX) We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies (Come Sail Away; performing artist: STYX) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All Aboard (1958) Terror Aboard (1933) All Aboard (1927) Once Aboard the Lugger (1920) All Aboard (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This composite image, made with two cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a ... Credit: NASA. |  | The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Walrus being brought aboard ship for study and dissection. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Pulling an oyster-dredge full of oysters aboard the skipjack "DEE" of St. Mary's. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Fishing for blues in the bay - NOAA/NODC employees Melanie Hamilton and Chapman Hom watch as yet another Bluefish comes aboard. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Loading the salmon smolts aboard the JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Trawling operations on the MILLER FREEMAN. A full net-load of fish brought aboard. The cod end is being lifted. It will be dumped in the checker, i.e, the sorting table. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Bringing a huge trawl aboard a commercial fishing vessel. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | A bluefin tuna attacked by a shark while being brought aboard during pole and line fishing operations. This tuna was attacked during a scientific tagging cruise on a chartered vessel. Credit: Fisheries. |  | AQUARIUS aboard transport barge on its way to St. Croix in 1986. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Sunset" by Luis Alexandre Commentary: "Sunset in the middle of the route to tangier, aboard 'princess danae' cruise ship." | "Cybertruck 3" by Matt Williams Commentary: "Maximus Prime! All aboard the all-singing, all dancing "Cybertruck" that I've spent a couple of days working on." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Grover Cleveland | The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | I was shipwrecked before I got aboard. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In 1999, Finns took over 6.1 million trips aboard out of which 2.1 million were leisure trips. (references) | |
Several people were killed on March 7 when a bomb linked to Uyghur separatists exploded aboard a bus in one of Beijing's busiest shopping districts. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Morocco | According to press reports, on October 11, police used force to break up a sit-in by dock workers aboard a ship and arrested 60 union members. (references) |
Ghana | On June 10, 167 Liberians on board a Swedish vessel that docked in Tema were not allowed to disembark, while Ghanaian and Nigerian citizens aboard the ship were permitted to disembark. (references) | |
Economic History | Panama | Gold and silver were brought by ship from South America, hauled across the isthmus, and loaded aboard ships for Spain. (references) |
Human Rights | Egypt | Some were arrested aboard a boat on the Nile River that allegedly served as a gay disco. (references) |
Worker Rights | Gabon | International organizations and their embassies assisted the 23 children aboard (from Benin, Togo, and Mali) when they arrived in Cotonou. (references) |
Togo | In April the ship arrived at the port of Owendo in Libreville, Gabon, and was turned away by Gabonese authorities, who suspected that illegal immigrants were aboard. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aboard" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 58.07% of the time. "Aboard" is used about 965 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 58.07% | 560 | 11,180 |
| Adverb (general) | 41.93% | 405 | 13,877 |
| Total | 100.00% | 965 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aboard": aboard a plane ♦ aboard a ship ♦ aboard the train ♦ close aboard ♦ get aboard ♦ go aboard ♦ go aboard the ship ♦ lighter aboard ship ♦ pipe the captain aboard ♦ take aboard ♦ To fall aboard of ♦ To haul the tacks aboard ♦ To keep the land aboard ♦ To lay a ship aboard. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "aboard": live-aboard. | |
Containing "aboard": once-aboard-the-lugger-and-the-maid-is-mine. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbi (above, across, beyond, on, onto, over, up), hipur në, brenda në. (various references) | |
Arabic | على متن سفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | в (about, against, around, at, by, down, in, inside, into, on, to, under, unto, up, within), отстрани (sidelings, sidewards, sideways), на борда на, на борда (on board), на (against, at, by, for, in, into, of, on, onto, over, per, to, unto, up, upon, with). (various references) | |
Chinese | 船上 , 在車 . (various references) | |
Czech | na palubu, na palubì. (various references) | |
Danish | om bord (on board). (various references) | |
Dutch | aan boord (on board). (various references) | |
Esperanto | enŝipiĝinta, enŝipe (on board). (various references) | |
Farsi | توی (In, Into, Within), ازروی (Off), روی (In, On, Over, Toward, Up, Upon, Zinc). (various references) | |
Finnish | laivassa (on board). (various references) | |
French | à bord. (various references) | |
German | an Bord (on board, on board ship), anwesend (present, reside). (various references) | |
Greek | στο πλοίο (inboard, on board). (various references) | |
Hebrew | על האניה, על ספון האניה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vonaton (aboard a train, by rail, by train), hajón (aboard a ship, aboard ship, afloat, by sea, on board, on board of a ship, on shipboard, to ship). (various references) | |
Indonesian | naik (accede, ascend, increasing, rising, up), di atas kapal. (various references) | |
Italian | a bordo (on board, on board ship). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 艦載 (carried aboard a warship), 艦上 (aboard a warship), 車上 (on or aboard a train or vehicle), 船火事 (fire aboard ship), 積み込む (to load, to put on board, to stow aboard), 機上 (aboard an airplane), 乗り組む (to get on aboard, to join a ship), 上 (a superior, aboard a ship or vehicle, above, after, as a matter of, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, best, emperor, far better, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, government, governmental, head, high class, higher, imperial, influence of, lord, my dear, on top of, outer, over, presenting, shogun, showing, sovereign, summit, superior, superior quality, surface, the above, top, up, upon, upper, upper part, upper part of the body, upper stream, upward). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃじょう (archery range or ground, letter of apology, on or aboard a train or vehicle, rifle or shooting range, thank-you letter), きじょう (a rail, aboard an airplane, firm, mount, on horseback, on the desk, stout-hearted, theoretical), ふなかじ (fire aboard ship), のりくむ (to get on aboard, to join a ship), つみこむ (to load, to put on board, to stow aboard), かんさい (carried aboard a warship, court of summary offences, dried vegetables, full payment, Kansai, liquidation, sugar beet, summary court), かんじょう (aboard a warship, allowance, annulation, calculation, consideration, coronary, counting, defending soldier, emotion, feeling, letter of commendation, reckoning, ring-forming, sentiment, settlement of an account, tubular), じょう (10^28, aboard a ship or vehicle, as a matter of, besides, best, cane, company officer, emotion, feelings, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, governmental, high class, imperial, jailer, lock, old man, padlock, passion, presenting, rank, shape, showing, superior quality, -tatami mats, ten octillion, ten thousand quadrillion, top, uselessness, whipping rod, young woman). (various references) | |
Korean | 를 타고. (various references) | |
Manx | er-boayrd, er lhuingey (on shipboard). (various references) | |
Norwegian | om bord. (various references) | |
Papiamen | abordo (on board). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aboarday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | a bordo (inboard, on board). (various references) | |
Romanian | pe bordul, pe bord, la bordul, la bord (afloat, on shipboard), în vagon (on board). (various references) | |
Russian | на корабль, на корабле (on shipboard), на борту (on board), на борт, на поезде, на поезд. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukrcan (embarked, loaded), u brodu, na brodu. (various references) | |
Spanish | a bordo (aboard a ship, on shipboard, shipboard), a bordo de. (various references) | |
Swedish | ombord (on board, on shipboard, onboard). (various references) | |
Turkish | atobüse, uçakta, uçağa (on board), trene, gemiye (on board), gemide (at sea, on board, on shipboard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уздовж (along, endways, endwise, lengthways, up), в автомобілі, в поїзді, на судні, на борту (on shipboard), на борт, на поїзд. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trên xe lửa; trên máy bay dọc theo; gần, trên thuyền, trên tàu, trên boong tàu, kế (art, by, expedient, expediential, mean, meant, wheeze). (various references) | |
Welsh | ar fwrdd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai euronteV ploion diaperwn eiV foinikhn epibanteV anhcqhmen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum invenissemus navem transfretantem in Foenicen ascendentes navigavimus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne we founden a schip passinge ouer to Fenyce, we wenten vp in to it, and sailden forth. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And we founde a shippe redy to sayle vnto Phenices and went a borde and set forthe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And finding a ship sailing over to Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 21, Verse 2 |
| Albanian | Edhe, si gjetëm një anije që shkonte për Feniki, hipëm dhe lundruam. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakakaplag kamig sakayan nga tumatabok ngadto sa Fenicia, kami misakay niini ug migikan. |
| Croatian | Kad naðosmo laðu za Feniciju, popesmo se i otplovismo. |
| Danish | Og da vi fandt et Skib, som skulde gå lige til Fønikien, gik vi om Bord og afsejlede. |
| Dutch | En een schip gevonden hebbende, dat naar Fenicie overvoer, gingen wij er in en voeren af. |
| Finnish | Siellä tapasimme Foinikiaan menevän laivan, astuimme siihen ja lähdimme purjehtimaan. |
| French | Et ayant trouvé un navire qui faisait la traversée vers la Phénicie, nous montâmes et partîmes. |
| German | Und da wir ein Schiff fanden, das nach Phönizien fuhr, traten wir hinein und fuhren hin. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Di Patara, kami menemukan kapal yang mau ke Fenisia. Maka kami naik kapal itu lalu berangkat |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Apabila kami dapat sebuah kapal yang hendak menyeberang ke Feniki, maka kami pun naik lalu berlayar. |
| Italian | Trovata qui una nave che faceva la traversata per la Fenicia, vi salimmo e prendemmo il largo. |
| Latvian | Un mçs, atraduði kuìi, kas brauc uz Feniíiju, iekâpâm un aizbraucâm. |
| Maori | Na ka rokohanga tetahi kaipuke e whakawhiti atu ana ki Pinika, a eke ana matou ki runga, rere ana. |
| Norwegian | Der fant vi et skib som skulde fare rett over til Fønikia; vi gikk da ombord på det og seilte avsted. |
| Portuguese | Achando um navio que seguia para a Fenícia, embarcamos e partimos. |
| Rumanian | Am gqsit o corabie, care avea sq treacq kn Fenicia, ne-am suit kn ea, wi am plecat. |
| Russian | Й, ОБКДС ЛПТБВМШ, ЙДХЭЙК Ч жЙОЙЛЙА, ЧЪПЫМЙ ОБ ОЕЗП Й ПФРМЩМЙ. |
| Shuar | Tura nui Pataranam pujusar, Chíkich kanu Pinisia péprunam wea Wáinkiamji. Túmakui nui enkemprar wémaji. |
| Spanish | Hallando un barco que hacía la travesía a Fenicia, nos embarcamos y zarpamos. |
| Swahili | Huko, tulikuta meli iliyokuwa inakwenda Foinike, hivyo tulipanda, tukasafiri. |
| Swedish | Där funno vi ett skepp som skulle fara över till Fenicien; på det gingo vi ombord och lade ut. |
| Uma | Hi Patara toe, hirua' -kai hante kapal to hilou hi tana' Fenisia hi propinsi Siria. Jadi', mehawi' -makai hi kapal toe mpokaliliu pomako' -kai. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "aboard": seaboard, teaboard. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aboard": seaboards, teaboards. (additional references) | |
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"Aboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abaar, abar, Abboxry, abead, a'bhaird, abiar, ablark, aboad, abood, aborad, aboral, aborm, aborr, abour, abourd, Abqar, abraod, abroard, abukar, Agobard, Alborado, aoba, azopardo, Bauart, Bavard, Cabourg, Eoard, labboard, taboard, Taborda. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aboard" (pronounced ubô"rd) |
| 4 | -b ô" r d | board, bored, reboard. |
| 3 | -ô" r d | accord, abhorred, adored, afford, award, chord, cord, deplored, Lord, explored, fjord, floored, Ford, gored, gourd, hoard, horde, ignored, implored, oared, outscored, pored, poured, prerecord, record, restored, reward, roared, scored, shored, soared, stored, sword, toward, underscored, unexplored, untoward, ward. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abroad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-o-r" | |
-1 letter: board, broad, dobra. | |
-2 letters: bard, boar, bora, brad, darb, drab, orad, road. | |
-3 letters: aba, abo, ado, arb, baa, bad, bar, boa, bod, bra, bro, dab, dor, oar, ora, orb, rad, rob, rod. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ar, ba, bo, do, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bandora, bravado, broadax. | |
+2 letters: adorable, adorably, bandoras, boardman, boatyard, bravados, broadaxe, garboard, labrador, lapboard, larboard, seaboard, tagboard, teaboard. | |
+3 letters: abandoner, abdicator, abrogated, adsorbate, backboard, barricado, baseboard, biohazard, boardwalk, boatyards, bravadoes, broadaxes, broadband, broadcast, broadleaf, broadtail, carbonade, carbonado, cardboard, clapboard, dartboard, dashboard, garboards, hardboard, headboard, jaborandi, labradors, lapboards, larboards, packboard, sailboard, seaboards, starboard, tackboard, tagboards, tailboard, teaboards, wallboard, washboard. | |
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