abord

Middle English aborden, from abord.[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈbɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈbɔɹd/

abord (plural abords)

1. (archaic) Manner or way of approaching or accosting; address. [since the early 1600s]

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abord (third-person singular simple present abords, present participle abording, simple past and past participle aborded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To approach. [attested from around 1400 until the late 1600s]
2. (transitive, rare) To accost. [since the early 1600s]
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, hardback edition, Duckworth, page 82:

     Mrs Hurstpierpoint aborded her with a smile.

• B road, Bardo, Board, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, adorb, bardo, board, broad, dobra

From Middle French [Term?], from aborder, from Old French aborder (“to hit a ship in order to board it”), from bord (“side of a ship, edge”), from Frankish *bord (“side of a ship or vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (“edge, border, side”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheredh- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old High German bort (“edge, rim, rand”), Old English bord (“ship, side of a ship”), Old Norse borð (“edge, side of a vessel”). More at board.

• IPA^(key): /a.bɔʁ/

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abord m (plural abords)

1. (literary) The manner with which one acts in the presence of another person or persons, especially in a first encounter.
2. (rare) The surroundings of a place.
3. (archaic) Arrival or accessibility by water.

• In the sense "surroundings", the word is almost always a pluralia tantum.
• The sense "manner of acting" is usually now perceived as a backformation from aborder (“to approach”), and is most common in the expression être d'un abord and variations of it.

• “abord” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• borda
• broda

From a- +‎ bord (“exterior of a ship”).

abord

1. On board; into or within a ship or boat
2. (nautical) Alongside.

abord

1. On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.