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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
/ əˈ²úɔ˻å /
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
˜yÐÄvlog 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
The experiment rode to the moon March 2 aboard Blue Ghost, a private lander from Firefly Aerospace.
The flights - which Mr Barrios and others were aboard - were halted by Judge Boasberg verbally over the weekend.
Nasa plans to bring them back to Earth in late March aboard a spaceship built by SpaceX, a rival company of Boeing.
It said they failed to "check that no clandestine entrant was concealed in the vehicle", but Mrs Fenton contested that technically he was clinging to the outside rather than aboard the motorhome.
NGO Sea Watch said it had managed to rescue all 32 people from the gas platform on Tuesday afternoon, and that they were being looked after aboard the Aurora ship.
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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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