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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cause to board a vessel or aircraft: stopped to embark passengers.
  2. v. To enlist (a person or persons) or invest (capital) in an enterprise.
  3. v. To go aboard a vessel or aircraft, as at the start of a journey.
  4. v. To set out on a venture; commence: embark on a world tour.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put on board a ship or other vessel: as, the general embarked his troops and their baggage.
  2. Hence To place or venture; put at use or risk, as by investment; put or send forth, as toward a destination: as, he embarked his capital in the scheme.
  3. To go on board ship, as when setting out on a voyage: as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
  4. To set out, as in some course or direction; make a start or beginning in regard to something; venture; engage.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To get on a boat or ship or (outside the USA) an aeroplane.
  2. v. To start, begin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
  2. v. To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
  3. v. To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage.
  4. v. To engage in any affair.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. go on board
  2. v. set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
  3. v. proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French embarquer, from em- + barque ("small ship"). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar. (Wiktionary)
  2. French embarquer, from Late Old French, probably from Medieval Latin imbarcāre : Latin in-, in- + barca, boat. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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