shipboard

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English

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Etymology

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

Adjective

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shipboard (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Occurring or existing on board a ship.
  2. (figurative) casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)

Noun

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shipboard (plural shipboards)

  1. The side of a ship.
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