: existing or taking place on board a ship
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Versatility is also key, and gear that can handle both shipboard living and shore excursions will make your experience far smoother.
Bringing a waterproof backpack or dry bag is essential for protecting gear, such as electronics and large camera lenses, from the elements.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 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
Yet soon one is overcome by Charles Laughton’s creepy, convincing portrayal of Captain Bligh’s sadomasochism: most of the first fifteen minutes is taken up with floggings and other shipboard disciplining of half-naked men, shown in detail while Laughton looks on with long-lipped lasciviousness.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Versatility is also key, and gear that can handle both shipboard living and shore excursions will make your experience far smoother.
Bringing a waterproof backpack or dry bag is essential for protecting gear, such as electronics and large camera lenses, from the elements.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 29 May 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 20 Jun. 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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