Liveaboard

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who lives on a boat.

    "“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."

  2. 2
    A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.

    "Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of a person: living on board a boat. not-comparable

Example

More examples

"“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."

Etymology

From live + aboard.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.