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aboard

[ uh-bawrd, uh-bohrd ]

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

  1. on board of; on, in, or into:

    to come aboard a ship.

aboard

/ əˈɔː /

adverb

  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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aboard1

1350–1400; Middle English abord ( e ) ( a- 1, board ), perhaps conflated with Middle French a bord
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. 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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Example Sentences

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Watching Mae Jamison become the first Black woman to go to space aboard the shuttle Endeavour in September 1992 was inspiring.

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Encounter someone who saw “Star Trek: The Experience” in Las Vegas, which opened in the late ’90s and ran for about a decade, and expect nostalgic reflections of running aboard the U.S.S.

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Blue Origin says the last all-female spaceflight was over 60 years ago when Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space on a solo mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6.

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Trump echoed these remarks last weekend, saying that only a "fairly small number of people" had been impacted, when he was asked by the BBC about the outbreak aboard Air Force One.

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The memory of this season will pass, and I will definitely be aboard for the next.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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