aboard
1 of 2adverb or adjective
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2
a
: on, onto, or within a vehicle (such as a car or ship)
b
: in or into a group, association, or organization
her second promotion since coming aboard
3
baseball
: on base
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Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Cruisers disembark, crush the town, then return aboard, minus the hotel stay which is a city’s greatest source of tourism revenue.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
The Boeing Starliner astronauts, who launched on the spacecraft's Crewed Flight Test on June 5, have been living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ever since their capsule returned to Earth without them.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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Adverb or adjective
The Royal Caribbean’s Explorer of the Seas is registered in the Bahamas, giving jurisdiction to the Nassau police who came aboard to review the case and subsequently cleared the woman’s fiancé, Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe, of any wrongdoing.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2025
Cruisers disembark, crush the town, then return aboard, minus the hotel stay which is a city’s greatest source of tourism revenue.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Preposition
No one on the ground was injured, and the five people aboard the plane were taken to hospitals, WGAL reported.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2025
The Boeing Starliner astronauts, who launched on the spacecraft's Crewed Flight Test on June 5, have been living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ever since their capsule returned to Earth without them.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Mar. 2025
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“Aboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aboard. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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aboard
1 of 2 adverb
ə-ˈbōrd 
-ˈbȯrd
: on, onto, or within a vehicle (as a car, ship, or airplane)
aboard
2 of 2 preposition
: on or into especially as a passenger
go aboard ship
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