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cab⋅in

[kab-in]
–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 esp. passengers in an air or space vehicle.
4. an apartment or room in a ship, as for passengers.
5. cabin class.
6. (in a naval vessel) living accommodations for officers.
–adverb
7. in cabin-class accommodations or by cabin-class conveyance: to travel cabin.
–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; ME cabane < MF < OPr cabana < LL capanna (Isidore of Seville), of uncert., perh. pre-L orig.; sp. with i perh. by influence of F cabine (see cabinet )


1. cot, shanty, shack, cottage. 6. quarters, compartment.
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cab·in   (kāb'ĭn)   
n.  
  1. A small, roughly built house; a cottage.

  2. Nautical

    1. A room in a ship used as living quarters by an officer or passenger.

    2. An enclosed compartment in a boat that serves as a shelter or as living quarters.

  3. The enclosed space in an aircraft or spacecraft for the crew, passengers, or cargo.

tr. & intr.v.   cab·ined, cab·in·ing, cab·ins
To confine or live in or as if in a small space or area.

[Middle English caban, from Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna.]
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Word Origin & History

cabin 
1346, from O.Fr. cabane, from O.Prov. cabana, from L.L. capanna "hut," of doubtful origin. Meaning "room or partition of a vessel" is from 1382. Cabin fever first recorded 1918.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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