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View synonyms for embarkation

embarkation

or em·bar·ca·tion

[ em-bahr-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act, process, or an instance of embarking.


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Other Words From

  • nonem·bar·kation noun
  • reem·bar·kation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embarkation1

First recorded in 1635–45; from French embarcation, from Spanish embarcación; equivalent to embark + -ation
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Example Sentences

And, Newtonian physics being Newtonian physics, all five should continue flying forever—spreading ever outward from the embarkation point of our planet, crossing hundreds and then thousands and then uncounted more astronomical units.

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Alaskan Dream Cruises has already publicly laid out plans, the first of which is to require all guests to have a PCR test within 72 hours of embarkation.

NASA now envisions building a sort of mini space station, known as Gateway, in a permanent lunar orbit that can be used as an embarkation point for trips to and from the lunar surface.

From Time

Such is the picture of the hasty embarkation, given by some of the attendants on the royal family.

Newton, as soon as his father was settled and his own affairs arranged, called upon his uncle previous to his embarkation.

But this hour or two of embarkation, in which so much really happened, left little impression on my mind.

From the officers' deck the picture of embarkation appeared in outline rather than in detail.

The embarkation was made not without difficulty, for the banks were partly flooded and the boat could not get in near enough.

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