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cabinful

cabinful noun: the amount that fits in a cabin.

Noun

cabinful (plural cabinfuls or cabinsful)

  1. The amount that fits in a cabin.
    • Nine people make a cabinful on a twentynine-footer!1991, John Caldwell, Desperate Voyage, →ISBN, page 156
    • "It's just that, of all our female counselors this year," Pamela was going on, "you really strike me as the one most capable of handling a cabinful of little boys. And you scored so well in your first aid and lifesaving courses — "2004, Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot, Code Name Cassandra, →ISBN, page 14

Examples of cabinful in a sentence

  • Then how do you like having a cabinful of gorillas on the deck above you?2012, Jack Lasenby, Aunt Effie's Ark, →ISBN:
  • While Fortescue Cuming could entertain a cabinful of young men with a violin in 1807, Frances Trollope noted that Cincinnatians organized formal balls for young people of quality twenty years later.2015, Emily Foster, The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings, →ISBN, page 139:

Forms of cabinful

pluralcabinfuls
pluralcabinsful

Origin of cabinful

From cabin + -ful.

Questions about cabinful

What does cabinful mean?
Cabinful means the amount that fits in a cabin.
How do you use cabinful in a sentence?
Then how do you like having a cabinful of gorillas on the deck above you?
What part of speech is cabinful?
Cabinful is a noun.
What is the plural of cabinful?
The plural of cabinful is cabinfuls.

Words near cabinful in the dictionary

  1. cabinettes
  2. cabinetwork
  3. cabinetworker
  4. cabinetworkers
  5. cabinetworking
  6. cabinful
  7. cabinfuls
  8. cabining
  9. cabinless
  10. cabinlike
  11. cabinmate

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