Aboard Meaning
/əˈbɔːd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advOn board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
advOn or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
Sentence Examples
It's time to get aboard.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard.
All the passengers aboard were killed in the crash.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
All passengers must be ____ the ship by six o'clock before it departs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The flight attendants welcomed the passengers ____ the plane.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English abord, from a- (“on”) + bord (“board, side of a ship”); equivalent to a- + board.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it."
— 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
"Trump said he signed the executive orders while aboard Air Force One on a return flight to Washington from Florida."
— 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
"Conditions were horrendous aboard 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."
— 2012 March 26, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
"Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast."
— 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
All passengers must be ____ the ship by six o'clock before it departs.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The flight attendants welcomed the passengers ____ the plane.