liveaboard

Etymology

From live + aboard.

liveaboard means of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

adj

Of a boat: designed or modified to allow people to live on board.
Of a person: living on board a boat.

noun

A person who lives on a boat.““We′re going to move aboard, sail around the world and do some writing,” the letter goes. “How are our chances?” It′s a common question from readers who know that my husband and I support our liveaboard life through writing and photography.”
A boat designed or modified to allow people to live on board, compared to similar boats which do not have this feature.“Liveaboards come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: monohulls, catamarans, and trimarans, from less than 30 feet to over 100. A liveaboard serves as hotel, restaurant, and dive shop all in one — and sometimes even as a photoprocessing lab, too.”