embarkment

[ em-bahrk-muhnt ]

noun

1. an embarkation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of embarkment¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; embark + -ment

Example Sentences

Though seen only in crude, dusty form during an early March visit, it’s evident the first hole will function as an embarkment, a kind of slow, measured entrance into an immense temple.

From Golf Digest

The release says the tanks were previously owned by Daufuskie Embarkment LLC but are now under the control of Netherlands-based Lex van Hessen Holding BV.

From Washington Times

Poor dear Hunt, you will have heard by this time of the disastrous conclusion of his third embarkment; he is to try a third time in April, and if he does not succeed then, we must say that the sea is un vero precipizio, and let him try land.

From Project Gutenberg

He was about a half-a-mile from where the barges lay moored against the stone-faced embarkment.

From Project Gutenberg

Two days before the embarkment of the troops Colonel DeLancey called one morning on the Elder.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• berth
• harbor
• jetty
• pier
• wharf