1. The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft
   "boarding for the cruise began two hours before departure";
   - embarkation, embarkment
    
2. A structure of boards
   "They covered the broken window with temporary boarding"

1. Get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
   "Passengers boarded the plane";
   - get on, hop 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)
   "The students boarded at the school during term time"
    
4. Provide food and lodging (for)
   "The old lady is boarding three men"

Derived forms: boardings

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

Encyclopedia: Boarding