shipboard

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shipboard

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Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.

adjective

  1. not comparable Occurring or existing on board a ship.
  2. figuratively, not comparable casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)

noun shipboards

  1. The side of a ship.

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@misc{shipboard_2026,
  title = {shipboard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shipboard},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}