aboard

adjon or in a transportation object

Synonyms for aboard

adj on or in a transportation object

Antonyms for aboard

Word Origin & History

late 14c., probably in most cases from Old French à bord, from à "on" + bord "board," from Frankish *bord or a similar Germanic source (see board (n.2)); the "boarding" or sides of a vessel extended to the ship itself. The usual Middle English expression was within shippes borde. The call all aboard! as a warning to passengers is attested from 1838.

Example Sentences for aboard

If you haven't time to hear it now, I will tell you aboard ship.

Very well, then, be ready, men; we'll be aboard 'em in a minute or two.

We laughed at him, and advised him to be quiet and put us aboard the privateer.

But my wealth and my friends and my son are aboard this ship.

The sound of the gong, seconded by the electrifying and resonant "Aboard!"

After a while Caradoc whispered, "Well, shall we try to get aboard?"

“Now the next thing is to get aboard the hulk,” was Dick's thought.

He quickly sent people to assist her, and they brought her aboard.

Aboard my ship I have frying-pans and cooking-pots, vinegar and spices.

I says to myself, if he finds out I'm aboard this boat, he's got me like a rat in a trap.