larboard

Other forms of larboard

plural

larboards·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about larboard

What does larboard mean?

larboard means "the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in larboard?

larboard has 3 syllables: lar-bo-ard. The stress falls on "lar".

What is another word for larboard?

Close synonyms include port, port. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of larboard?

The recorded antonyms are starboard.

Is larboard a common word?

larboard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.