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caba

caba noun: a cabas, or lady's bag.

Noun

caba (plural cabas)

  1. (dated) A cabas, or lady's bag.
    • Mrs. Sherbourne […] hurriedly searched her pocket, her caba, and her muff, without finding the lost treasure.1860, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, The haunted homestead: and other nouvellettes, page 279

Proper noun capitalized: Caba

Caba (countable and uncountable, plural Cabas)

  1. A municipality of La Union, Philippines.
  2. A surname.

Forms of caba

Noun
pluralcabas
Proper noun
pluralCabas

Questions about caba

What does caba mean?
Caba means a cabas, or lady's bag.
What part of speech is caba?
Caba can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of caba?
The plural of caba is cabas.

Words near caba in the dictionary

  1. cab unit
  2. cab units
  3. cab-driver
  4. cab-drivers
  5. cab-rank rule
  6. caba
  7. Cabacungan
  8. Cabacungans
  9. Cabada
  10. Cabadas
  11. Cabadbaran

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