# aboard

Pronunciation: US say "uh-BORD" /əˈbɔɹd/; UK say "uh-BAWD" /əˈbɔːd/

## Preposition

1. Used before a ship, boat, train, or plane to mean on board it, or onto or into it.
   - Simple: Used to say someone or something is on, or getting onto, a ship, boat, train, or plane.
   - _The last passengers hurried aboard the ship just before the gangway was raised._
   - _Two nurses aboard the flight looked after the sick passenger until the plane landed._
6. Used before a word for a horse to mean onto it.
   - Simple: Used to say that someone gets up onto a horse.
   - _The ranch hand swung aboard the bay mare and headed for the far pasture._
   - _Grabbing a handful of mane, the rider vaulted aboard her horse without touching the stirrups._

## Adverb

2. On board a ship or boat, or into or within one; by extension, into or within a railway car.
   - Simple: On or into a ship or boat, or a train.
   - _Late commuters jumped aboard just as the train doors began to close._
   - _Once all the cargo was aboard, the freighter slipped away from the dock._
3. Into a team, group, or company as one of its members.
   - Simple: Into a team, group, or company that you have just joined.
   - _The startup brought an experienced finance chief aboard ahead of its next funding round._
   - _The editor welcomed her aboard on her first morning in the newsroom._
4. On or onto the back of a horse, a camel, or a similar animal.
   - Simple: On or onto the back of a horse, camel, or similar animal.
   - _With a quick swing of his leg, the cowboy was aboard and the horse began to buck._
   - _The favorite, with an experienced jockey aboard, pulled away in the final stretch._
5. In baseball, on base, as a runner who has reached one of the bases.
   - Simple: In baseball, on one of the bases as a runner.
   - _With the tying run aboard in the ninth, the manager sent up a pinch hitter._
   - _She homered with two aboard to put the game out of reach._
7. Alongside: beside a ship, or close against its side.
   - Simple: Right next to the side of a ship.
   - _The supply ship came close aboard, and the crews passed fuel hoses across the gap._
   - _The lookout reported a fishing boat passing close aboard on the starboard side._

## Preposition

8. Used before a noun to mean across, athwart, or alongside it. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Across something, or along its side.

## Origin

From Middle English abord, formed from a- ("on") and bord ("board, side of a ship"); it is equivalent to a- + board.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/aboard (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).