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aboard
[ uh-bawrd, uh-bohrd ]
adverb
- on board; on, in, or into a ship, train, airplane, bus, etc.:
to step aboard.
- alongside; to the side.
- Baseball. on base:
a homer with two aboard.
- into a group as a new member:
The office manager welcomed him aboard.
preposition
- on board of; on, in, or into:
to come aboard a ship.
aboard
/ əˈɔː /
adverb
- on, in, onto, or into (a ship, train, aircraft, etc)
- nautical alongside (a vessel)
- all aboard!a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- all aboard! (as a warning to passengers entering or planning to enter a train, bus, boat, etc., just before starting) Everyone get on!
Example Sentences
Watching Mae Jamison become the first Black woman to go to space aboard the shuttle Endeavour in September 1992 was inspiring.
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.
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.
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.
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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