board

A2 Topic:Transportation

US /bɔɹd/ UK /bɔːd/ See IPA manual

Homophones

bored /bɔɹd/

noun verb Freq #1066

Meanings

1

noun
A long, flat, thin piece of wood or other material.

They nailed boards across the broken window.
2

noun
A group of people who manage or supervise an organization.

The board meets once a month to make decisions.
3

verb
To get on a train, bus, ship, or plane.

Passengers should board the plane through gate twelve.
4

noun
A flat surface marked for playing a game.

He set up the board and we began to play chess.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

3 verb · to get on a train, bus,... get on

4 noun · a flat surface marked for... gameboard

Word family

Forms boardedboardingboards

Derived forms aboard above-boardacross-the-boardairboardaquaboardartboardaudioboardbackerboardbakeboardbarnboardbattenboardbeadboard

Related forms batten beam lath plank pole slab veneer

Common collocations

Etymology

A wooden board Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰh₁eti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰh₁eti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table." Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”)…

boord Middle English bord Old English *bord frk *burdą Proto-Germanic *bʰers- Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

Transportation

# board

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** bɔɹd
**IPA (UK):** bɔːd
**Frequency rank:** 1066

## Meanings
1. A long, flat, thin piece of wood or other material.
2. A group of people who manage or supervise an organization.
3. To get on a train, bus, ship, or plane.
4. A flat surface marked for playing a game.

## Examples
- They nailed boards across the broken window.
- The board meets once a month to make decisions.
- Passengers should board the plane through gate twelve.
- He set up the board and we began to play chess.

## Derived Forms
- aboard
- above-board
- across-the-board
- airboard
- aquaboard
- artboard
- audioboard
- backerboard
- bakeboard
- barnboard
- battenboard
- beadboard

## Related Forms
- batten
- beam
- lath
- plank
- pole
- slab
- veneer

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: boord
- Root: bord
- Root: *bord
- Root: *burdą
- Root: *bʰers-

## Etymology
A wooden board Board (duplicate bridge) From Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰh₁eti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰh₁eti. The senses "food" and "council" are by metonymy from the sense "table." Cognates Cognate with Scots buird (“board; table”), Yola borde (“table”), West Frisian boerd (“board”), Dutch bord (“dish, plate; board, plank; sign”), boord (“border, boundary; bank, shore”), German Bord (“shelf”)…

## AI Etymology
Board comes from Middle English boord, boorde, bord, bourd, burd, from Old English bord, from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“board, plank; edge; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, top”) + *-dʰh₁eti or *bʰerH- (“to pierce; to strike”) + *-dʰh₁eti.

## Topics
- Transportation

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