starboard

1. 1.

   the right side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

   Antonymslarboard

   Broaderside

1. 1.

   turn to the right, of helms or rudders

   Broadersteer

   seafaring

1. 1.

   located on the right side of a ship or aircraft

   Similarright

Other forms of starboard

plural

starboards·

past tense

starboarded·

present participle

starboarding·

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 starboard

What does starboard mean?

starboard means "the right 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 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in starboard?

starboard has 2 syllables: star-board. The stress falls on "star". In IPA it is /ˈstɑɹbɚd/.

What is the opposite of starboard?

The recorded antonyms are larboard.

Is starboard a common word?

starboard is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.