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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

登船

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dēng chuán

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Embarkation/ɪm.bɑːrˈkeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #5420 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"请所有乘客前往登船口。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of putting or going on board a ship or aircraft for travel.

    "Passengers gathered in the terminal two hours before embarkation."
  2. 2

    The start of a new project, enterprise, or journey.

    "Her graduation marked the embarkation of a promising scientific career."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word 'embarcation', rooted in the prefix 'en-' (in) and 'barque' (small ship), tracing back to Late Latin 'barca'. Historically adopted into English in the late 16th century to denote the action of boarding a ship or aircraft for a journey.

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