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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.
EXPANDan apartment or room in a ship, as for passengers.
6.
COLLAPSE(in a naval vessel) living accommodations for officers.
adverb
7.
in cabin-class accommodations or by cabin-class conveyance: to travel cabin.
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Cabins
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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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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"
EXPANDsense; earlier (1820s) it was a term for typhus.
COLLAPSE
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Cabins definition
only in Jer. 37:16 (R.V., "cells"), arched vaults or recesses off a passage or room; cells for the closer confinement of prisoners.
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