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cabbin

cabbin is the obsolete spelling of cabin.

Meaning of cabin

Noun

cabin (plural cabins)

  1. (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
    • Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
    Synonyms:
    hut, shack, shed
  2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. A private room on a ship.
    • the captain’s cabin
  4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
    • Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  5. The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

See all 12 meanings of cabin

Forms of cabbin

pluralcabbins

Questions about cabbin

What is cabbin the obsolete spelling of?
Cabbin is the obsolete spelling of cabin.

Words near cabbin in the dictionary

  1. cabbelling
  2. cabber
  3. cabbers
  4. cabbie
  5. cabbies
  6. cabbin
  7. cabbing
  8. cabbins
  9. Cabbiri
  10. cabbit
  11. cabbits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabbin (page history and authors); cabin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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