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aboard

[uh-bawrd, uh-bohrd]

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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

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adverb

on, in, onto, or into (a ship, train, aircraft, etc)
nautical alongside (a vessel)
a warning to passengers to board a vehicle, ship, etc

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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

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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But when DeBlois and Sanders came aboard, 15 months before the 2010 release, replacing the previous directors, their first major change was to make Toothless a dragon that could be ridden.

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Everybody climbs aboard this unlikely adventure just to save Mikey’s house.

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After months of experiments aboard the space station, Ms Williams and Mr Wilmore eventually returned to Earth on 18 March.

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The family was aboard the Pangaboat, a small boat with an outboard motor, along with several other people when it capsized at Del Mar Beach.

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And in between that, May hit a major speed bump, offering up a down-the-middle sinker with two aboard in the bottom of the fourth to Schneemann.

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