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1. The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
   - embarkation, embarkment
    
2. A structure of boards

1. Get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
   - get on
    
2. Live and take one's meals at or in
   "she rooms in an old boarding house"
   - room
    
3. Lodge and take meals (at)
    
4. Provide food and lodging (for)
   "The old lady is boarding three men"

Derived forms: boardings

See also: boarder

Type of: cater, come in, construction, departure, dwell, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, going, going away, habituate, inhabit, leaving, live, move into, ply, populate, provide, structure, supply, use

Encyclopedia: Board