cabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæbɪn/
rhymes: -æbɪn
Forms: form: cabins
Etymology: From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
Senses: examples: text: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
text: 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.
ref: 1994, Michael Grumley, “Life Drawing”, in Violet Quill:
glosses: 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.
glosses: A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
examples: text: the captain’s cabin
text: Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A private room on a ship.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
glosses: The passenger area of an airplane.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A signal box.
examples: text: So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23:
glosses: A small room; an enclosed place.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008 November 15, Tony Thakaran, “Dasvidaniya: A bittersweet slice of middle-class life”, in Reuters Blogs, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2008:
glosses: A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
Synonyms: cell
chamber
hut
pod
shack
shed
Derived terms: aftercabin
cabin attendant
cabin bed
cabin boy
cabin car
cabin class
cabin compass
cabin crew
cabin-cruiser
cabin cruiser
cabinet
cabinette
cabin fever
cabinful
cabin hook
cabinless
cabinlike
cabinmate
forecabin
great cabin
in-cabin
log cabin
portacabin
pressure cabin
signal cabin