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SHIPBOARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shipboard mean?
• SHIPBOARD (adjective)
The adjective SHIPBOARD has 1 sense:
1. casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship
Familiarity information: SHIPBOARD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship
Context example:
shipboard romances
Similar:
impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)
Context examples
On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The map also provides a foundation for the upcoming new version of Google's ocean maps; it will fill large voids between shipboard depth profiles.
(New map uncovers thousands of unseen seamounts on ocean floor, NSF)
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