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 and divides as lar-bo-ard under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.