shipboard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a ship considered as a place where people live, meet, or travel, chiefly in the phrase on shipboard

   The two naturalists first met on shipboard during the voyage south.

2. 2
   adj

   existing, occurring, or used on board a ship

   All passengers attended the shipboard safety drill.

3. 3
   noun

   the side of a ship

   The damaged boat struck the shipboard before drifting astern.

Simplified etymology

Shipboard is recorded from Middle English and contains board in its nautical sense “the side of a ship.”

Inherited from Middle English schipbord, a compound of ship + board. Board originally referred to a plank or a vessel's side; the compound later also named the ship itself in on shipboard and became an adjective for things occurring aboard.

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