ON BOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on board mean? 

• ON BOARD (adverb)
  The adverb ON BOARD has 1 sense:

1. on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

  Familiarity information: ON BOARD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON BOARD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle

Synonyms:

aboard; on board

 Context examples 

He have take his last earth-box on board a ship, and he leave the land.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Before I come on board your vessel,” said he, “will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Eight feet of the butt was above the rail, and I was as far away as ever from getting the spar on board.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Madam,” he replied, “I am informed that we must positively be on board before seven tomorrow morning.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There can be no doubt that the probability—the strong probability—is that the writer was on board of a ship.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And now,” added the doctor, “Jim may come on board with us, may he not?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I hate to hear of women on board, or to see them on board; and no ship under my command shall ever convey a family of ladies anywhere, if I can help it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ford's feet reached the edge of the bulwarks, and his hand clutching a rope he swung himself on board.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He would have felt better if he were already on board and gone.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)