shipboard

1 of 2

noun

ship·​board ˈship-ˌbȯrd 

1

: the side of a ship

2

: ship

met on shipboard

shipboard

2 of 2

adjective

: existing or taking place on board a ship

Examples of shipboard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

Lonely young soldiers and sailors in army barracks and shipboard bunkbeds read and savored the novel during reprieves from battle and then passed it along to their buddies. —Rob Kyff, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2025

The sea, the wind, the fear, the exhaustion and the bad shipboard food will remain. —Silvana Paternostro Nathalia Angarita, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025

Adjective

And then there’s the efficiency with which the shipboard lifestyle promotes a lively assortment of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. —Curbed, 3 Mar. 2022

Interested in inverting the power dynamics between the superrich and those underpaid to serve them, Ostlund found de Leon’s transformation from shipboard housekeeping staffer to authoritative captain ashore to be searingly convincing. —Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

1857, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing shipboard

• on shipboard

Rhymes for shipboard

• abhorred
• aboard
• accord
• adored
• afford
• award
• baseboard
• billboard
• blackboard
• boxboard
• breadboard
• broadsword

Kids Definition

shipboard

1 of 2 noun

ship·​board ˈship-ˌbō(ə)rd 

-ˌbȯ(ə)rd

1

: the side of a ship

2

: ship entry 1 sense 1

met on shipboard

shipboard

2 of 2 adjective

: existing or taken place on board a ship

a shipboard romance