verb
Meaning 1
To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- All passengers please embark now.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
embark
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑːk/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɛmˈbɑːk/
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General-American: /ɪmˈbɑɹk/
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General-American: /ɛmˈbɑɹk/
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rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)k
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CMU ARPABET: EH0 M B AA1 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: IH0 M B AA1 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To start, begin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Phil embarked on his journey yesterday.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- He embarked his fortune in trade.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To cover or enclose with bark.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she embarked upon a new career
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence
Narrower terms: take up
verb
Meaning 7
go on board
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ship
Antonyms: disembark
Broader terms: board, get on
Narrower terms: emplane, enplane
verb
Meaning 8
proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: venture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: go, proceed, move
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French embarquer, from em- + barque (“small ship”). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- English em- English bark English embark From em- + bark.
Across languages
Translations
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: صَعِدَ (ṣaʕida) — to get on a boat
- Armenian: նավ նստել (nav nstel) — to get on a boat
- Basque: itsasoratu — to get on a boat
- Bulgarian: качвам се на кораб (kačvam se na korab) — to get on a boat
- Catalan: embarcar — to get on a boat
- Chinese Mandarin: 登船 (dēngchuán) — to get on a boat
- Chinese Mandarin: 上船 (shàngchuán) — to get on a boat
- Chinese Mandarin: 乘船 (chéngchuán) — to get on a boat
- Czech: nalodit — to get on a boat
- Czech: nalodit se — to get on a boat
- Esperanto: enŝipiĝi — to get on a boat
- Finnish: nousta — to get on a boat
- French: monter — to get on a boat
- French: embarquer — to get on a boat
- Galician: embarcar — to get on a boat
- German: einschiffen — to get on a boat
- German: an Bord gehen — to get on a boat
- Greek: επιβιβάζομαι (epivivázomai) — to get on a boat
- Greek: μπαρκάρω (barkáro) — to get on a boat
- Hungarian: felszáll — to get on a boat
- Hungarian: beszáll — to get on a boat
- Italian: imbarcare — to get on a boat
- Japanese: 乗船する (jōsen suru) — to get on a boat
- Japanese: 乗る (noru) — to get on a boat
- Khmer: ជិះ (cih) — to get on a boat
- Korean: 타다 (tada) — to get on a boat
- Manx: cur er boayrd — to get on a boat
- Māori: eke — to get on a boat
- Polish: ambarkować się — to get on a boat
- Polish: wejść na pokład — to get on a boat
- Portuguese: embarcar — to get on a boat
- Romanian: îmbarca — to get on a boat
- Russian: сесть на кора́бль (sestʹ na koráblʹ) — to get on a boat
- Russian: сади́ться на кора́бль (sadítʹsja na koráblʹ) — to get on a boat
- Serbo-Croatian: ukrcati — to get on a boat
- Spanish: embarcar — to get on a boat
- Swedish: embarkera — to get on a boat
- Swedish: ombordstiga — to get on a boat
- Turkish: binmek — to get on a boat
- Vietnamese: lên tàu — to get on a boat
- Bulgarian: предприемам (predpriemam) — to start
- Dutch: beginnen — to start
- Dutch: starten — to start
- Finnish: aloittaa — to start
- Finnish: lähteä — to start
- German: beginnen — to start
- German: antreten — to start
- Hungarian: nekilát — to start
- Hungarian: kezd — to start
- Hungarian: elkezd — to start
- Hungarian: megkezd — to start
- Hungarian: hozzáfog — to start
- Hungarian: belefog — to start
- Hungarian: nekifog — to start
- Hungarian: belevág — to start
- Hungarian: nekivág — to start
- Italian: imbarcare — to start
- Italian: iniziare — to start
- Italian: imbarcarsi — to start
- Italian: cacciarsi — to start
- Italian: impegolarsi — to start
- Māori: hikihiki — to start
- Portuguese: começar — to start
- Russian: начина́ть (načinátʹ) — to start
- Russian: нача́ть (načátʹ) — to start
- Spanish: embarcarse — to start
- Swedish: begynna — to start
- Swedish: påbörja — to start
- Tocharian B: mit- — to start
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