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embarkationor em·bar·ca·tion [ em-bahr-key-shuhn ] / ˌɛm bɑrˈkeɪ ʃən / SEE SYNONYMS FOR embarkation ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act, process, or an instance of embarking. Origin of embarkation1635–45; <French embarcation<Spanish embarcación.See embark, -ation OTHER WORDS FROM embarkationnon·em·bar·ka·tion, nounre·em·bar·ka·tion, nounWords nearby embarkationembar, embarcadero, embarcation, embargo, embark, embarkation, embarkment, Embarras, embarras de richesses, embarrass, embarrassing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for embarkationAnother minute and all four were aboard the embarkation they had so lately abandoned,—once more saved from the perils of the deep! The Ocean Waifs|Mayne Reid Here the wheat was scanty and of poor quality, and the buyers had sent very little to their port of embarkation—Rosario. The Argentine in the Twentieth Century|Albert B. Martinez Now I will return to the point of my embarkation on the galley Generalizia in the port of Malamocco. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first|Count Carlo Gozzi As the officer issued his order for embarkation, there was a momentary commotion. The Pacific Triangle|Sydney Greenbie
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