English Explanatory Dictionary

shipboard

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Occurring or existing on board a ship.
  2. casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)
noun
  1. The side of a ship.

Word forms

shipboard shipboards

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.

Related words

ashipboard on shipboard
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