EMBARKATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embarkation mean? 

• EMBARKATION (noun)
  The noun EMBARKATION has 1 sense:

1. the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

  Familiarity information: EMBARKATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBARKATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boarding; embarkation; embarkment

Hypernyms ("embarkation" is a kind of...):

departure; going; going away; leaving (the act of departing)

Antonym:

disembarkation (the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft)

 Context examples 

The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It appears to me highly important that Mr. Micawber should, from the hour of his embarkation, feel his position.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Those are as fixed as fate, and my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)