Liveaboard

Quick meaning: Liveaboard is an adjective meaning Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.

Meaning

Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.

More Meanings

1. Of a person: living on board a boat.
2. A person who lives on a boat.
3. A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.

Example Sentences

2008, Zoe Simpson, A Matter of Degree, Fossil-Imprints, UK, page 132, ‘None of the boats around you have liveaboards, do they?’ put in Mum.

This marina is the closest to the ocean and has a surprisingly liberal liveaboard policy (10 percent of the total population; children, pets, okay).

“We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.

Pat and Kelly′s was the haven for the liveaboard community and had acquired a legendary reputation for a salty ambiance involving a couple of parrots, a raccoon, dogs and independent liveaboards who had little time for established governments.

Word Forms

• liveaboards

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shipboard, boat-in, on-train, deckside, abovedeck, bulkheaded.

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