cabin
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ɪn noun
1.
a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction: He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.
2.
an enclosed space for more or less temporary occupancy, as the living quarters in a trailer or the passenger space in a cable car.
3.
the enclosed space for the pilot, cargo, or especially passengers in an air or space vehicle.
4.
an apartment or room in a ship, as for passengers.
5.
adverb
7.
in cabin-class accommodations or by cabin-class conveyance: to travel cabin.
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verb (used without object)
8.
to live in a cabin: They cabin in the woods on holidays.
verb (used with object)
9.
to confine; enclose tightly; cramp.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English cabane < Middle French < Old Provençal cabana < Late Latin capanna (Isidore of Seville), of uncertain, perhaps pre-Latin orig.; spelling with i perhaps by influence of French cabine (see cabinet)
1325–75; Middle English cabane < Middle French < Old Provençal cabana < Late Latin capanna (Isidore of Seville), of uncertain, perhaps pre-Latin orig.; spelling with i perhaps by influence of French cabine (see cabinet)
Related forms
un·cab·ined, adjective
Synonyms
1. cot, shanty, shack, cottage. 6. quarters, compartment.
1. cot, shanty, shack, cottage. 6. quarters, compartment.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a small simple dwelling; hut |
| 2. | a simple house providing accommodation for travellers or holiday-makers at a motel or holiday camp |
| 3. | a room used as an office or living quarters in a ship |
| 4. | a covered compartment used for shelter or living quarters in a small boat |
| 5. | (in a warship) the compartment or room reserved for the commanding officer |
| 6. | (Brit) another name for signal box |
| 7. | a. the enclosed part of a light aircraft in which the pilot and passengers sit |
| b. the part of an airliner in which the passengers are carried | |
| c. the section of an aircraft used for cargo | |
| —vb | |
| 8. | to confine in a small space |
| [C14: from Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna hut] | |
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Word Origin & History
cabin
mid-14c., from O.Fr. cabane "hut, cabin," from O.Prov. cabana, from L.L. capanna "hut" (cf. Sp. cabana), of doubtful origin. Fr. cabine (18c.), It. cabino are English loan-words. Meaning "room or partition of a vessel" is from late 14c. Cabin fever first recorded by 1918 in the "need to get out and about"
sense; earlier (1820s) it was a term for typhus.
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Example sentences
BA's cabin crew need to wake-up and realise how well paid they are vis-a-vias other cabin crew and how replaceable they are.
The cabin porches have picnic tables and charcoal grills.
Built this cabin with his own hands-and with wooden pegs, not nails.
But in the make-shift guest cabin at the fair, he recalls sleeping remarkably soundly.
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