cabin
/ˈkæbɪn/
cabin noun: 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.
Noun
cabin (plural cabins)
- 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.
- And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.1994, Michael Grumley, “Life Drawing”, in Violet Quill
- A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- A private room on a ship.
- the captain’s cabin
- Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
- 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
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- A signal box.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23
- A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
- There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.2008 November 15, Tony Thakaran, “Dasvidaniya: A bittersweet slice of middle-class life”, in Reuters Blogs, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2008
Verb
cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)
- To place in a cabin or other small space.
- To limit the scope of.
- There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining...2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11
- To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
- I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
cabin meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
cabin in Tamil
- கப்பலறை, சிறுகுடில், சிற்றறை, கப்பல் சிற்றறை
cabin in Marathi
- केबिन, कॅबिन
cabin in Urdu
- کوٹھری
cabin in Bengali
- small dwelling, especially one made of logs
- কেবিন kebin
More languagesFewer languages
- cabin in Telugu
- క్యాబిన్, కాబిన్, కేబిన్
- cabin in Malayalam
- കുടിൽ, കുടീരം
- cabin in Kannada
- ಗುಡಿಸಲು, ಕೋಣೆ
- cabin in Punjabi
- ਕੈਬਿਨ
- cabin in Gujarati
- કેબિન, કૅબિન, કેબિનની
- cabin in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାବିନ, କେବିନ, କାବିନ୍
- cabin in Nepali
- केबिन, क्याबिन, क्याबिङ
- cabin in Pashto
- کډغالی kaḍghā́laj
- cabin in Tagalog
- dampa, kalambakod
- cabin in Arabic
- زِمْلِك zimlik, خُصّ ḵuṣṣ, عُشَّة ʕušša, عَشِيش ʕašīš
- cabin in Malay
- pondok, kamar, kuteri
- cabin in Indonesian
- kabin
- cabin in Vietnamese
- buồng riêng
Examples of cabin in a sentence
- Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v.2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11
Synonyms of cabin
Forms of cabin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cabins |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cabins |
| present participle | cabining |
| past participle | cabined |
| past | cabined |
Origin of cabin
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
Words formed from cabin
Phrases with cabin
Questions about cabin
- What does cabin mean?
- Cabin means 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.
- What is cabin in Tamil?
- Cabin in Tamil is கப்பலறை, சிறுகுடில், சிற்றறை. See Cabin meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cabin in a sentence?
- Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
- What part of speech is cabin?
- Cabin can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cabin?
- Cabin is pronounced /ˈkæbɪn/.
- What is the plural of cabin?
- The plural of cabin is cabins.
Words near cabin in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabin (page history and authors); cabin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cabin (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cabin (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cabin (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cabin (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cabin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cabin (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cabin (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cabin (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cabin (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کډغالی (Pashto) (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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