: existing or taking place on board a ship
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Rob Kyff, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
The sea, the wind, the fear, the exhaustion and the bad shipboard food will remain.
—Silvana Paternostro Nathalia Angarita, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022
Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing.
—Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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Noun
Lonely young soldiers and sailors in army barracks and shipboard bunkbeds read and savored the novel during reprieves from battle and then passed it along to their buddies.
—Rob Kyff, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025
The sea, the wind, the fear, the exhaustion and the bad shipboard food will remain.
—Silvana Paternostro Nathalia Angarita, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
And then there’s the efficiency with which the shipboard lifestyle promotes a lively assortment of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses.
—Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022
Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing.
—Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022
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“Shipboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipboard. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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shipboard
1 of 2 noun
ship·board
ˈship-ˌbō(ə)rd 
-ˌbȯ(ə)rd
1
: the side of a ship
2
: ship entry 1 sense 1
met on shipboard
shipboard
2 of 2 adjective
: existing or taken place on board a ship
a shipboard romance
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