abord
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English [edit]
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Noun [edit]
abord (plural abords)
- (archaic) Manner or way of approaching or accosting; address. [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
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Verb [edit]
abord (third-person singular simple present abords, present participle abording, simple past and past participle aborded)
- (transitive, obsolete) To approach. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.][2]
- (transitive, rare) To accost. [First attested in the early 17th century.][2]
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 82
- Mrs Hurstpierpoint aborded her with a smile.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 82
References [edit]
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 4:
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 6:
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Etymology [edit]
From Middle French, from aborder, from Old French aborder (“to hit a ship in order to board it”), from bord (“side of a ship, edge”), from Frankish *bord (“side of a ship or vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“edge, border, side”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheredh- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old High German bort (“edge, rim, rand”), Old English bord (“ship, side of a ship”), Old Norse borð (“edge, side of a vessel”). More at board.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
abord m (plural abords)
- (literary) The manner with which one acts in the presence of another person or persons, especially in a first encounter.
- (rare) The surroundings of a place.
- (archaic) Arrival or accessibility by water.
Usage notes [edit]
- In the sense "surroundings", the word is almost always a pluralia tantum.
- The sense "manner of acting" is usually now perceived as a backformation from aborder (“to approach”), and is most common in the expression être d'un abord and variations of it.
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