If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
She invited 750 people aboard the luxury yacht, the Savarona.
They said goodbye to him as he got aboard the train at Union Station.
Aboard is also an adverb.
It had taken two hours to load all the people aboard.
The United States has a naval task force offshore, with two thousand marines aboard.
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aboard in British English
(əˈbɔːd)
adverb, adjective, preposition(postpositive)
1.
on, in, onto, or into (a ship, train, aircraft, etc)
2. nautical
alongside (a vessel)
3. all aboard!
aboard in American English
(əˈbɔrd)
adverb
1.
on board; on, in, or into a ship, airplane, etc.
2. Nautical
alongside
the sailboat passed our ship close aboard
3.
as a participant, partner, employee, etc.
usually in the phrases come aboard and welcome aboard
preposition
4.
on board of; on; in
Idioms:
all aboard!
Word origin
ME abord < OFr a bord: see board
Examples of 'aboard' in a sentence
aboard
They were not in disguise, so clearly they were able to maintain some semblance of outward femininity while aboard these ships.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
Wedding guests climbed aboard a platform hoisted into the air by a crane.
The Sun (2008)
But the luckiest thing of all was that we had the crew aboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They also went aboard a real sub to get a feel for the actual cramped space.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
That was the signal for the pilot to come aboard.
Eric Newby A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES (2003)
They would have come with merchants by land or aboard ships.
The Sun (2015)
Small lumps of sea began to come aboard.
various & introduction by Deirdre Chapman A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990 (1990)
But she laughed as she realised she had been snapped as she got back aboard with wet hair.
The Sun (2013)
The rough life aboard a merchant vessel had presented opportunities to observe and treat a variety of ailments and injuries.
Ben Macintyre JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King (2004)
There were few life jackets aboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Five cabin crew were also aboard.
The Sun (2009)
There is also a telephone aboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
That night they slept aboard ship.
Adam Sisman The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (2006)
Their boat capsized in high winds with 300 people aboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Shameless idleness is no bar to sailing when you've got a crew aboard.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Crew members aboard a Norwegian ship also tracked the object.
The Sun (2015)
We were also much more speedy, finishing the work in time to go back aboard the ship for a meal.
Edward Beauclerk Maurice THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic (2004)
It killed all 217 people aboard.
Christianity Today (2000)
The new project from Downton's writer is a series that will present life aboard the ship.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Also aboard the shuttle were fifteen ants, whose behaviour in space is to be studied and compared to control groups of the insects on earth.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
aboard
British English: aboard PREPOSITION
If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.