Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, roughly built house; a cottage.
- noun A room in a ship used as living quarters by an officer or passenger.
- noun An enclosed compartment in a boat that serves as a shelter or as living quarters.
- noun The enclosed space in an aircraft or spacecraft for the crew, passengers, or cargo.
- transitive & intransitive verb To confine or live in or as if in a small space or area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confine as in a cabin.
- To live in a cabin; lodge.
- noun A hut; a cottage; a small house or habitation, especially one that is poorly constructed.
- noun A small room; an inclosed place.
- noun An apartment in a ship for officers or passengers.
- noun Same as
cabinet , 4. - noun In mining, a small room partitioued off inside the mine for the use of the mine officials.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
- noun A cottage or small house; a hut.
- noun A small room; an inclosed place.
- noun A room in ship for officers or passengers.
- noun a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.
- intransitive verb To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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.
- noun informal A
chalet orlodge , especially one that can hold large groups of people. - noun A
compartment on land, usually comprised oflogs . - noun A private room on a
ship . - noun The interior of a
boat , enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping. - noun The passenger area of an airplane.
- noun rail transport, informal a
signal box
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
- verb confine to a small space, such as a cabin
- noun small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- noun the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Our California mountain cabin is near the village stables and, to this day, the only time Ninotchka springs into action is at the sight of a horse, any horse.
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Our California mountain cabin is near the village stables and, to this day, the only time Ninotchka springs into action is at the sight of a horse, any horse.
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Topped by a broad shingled asphalt roof and constructed from recovered timbers, the cabin is anchored by a Rumford fireplace that makes use of local stone.
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Derived largely from the design that will be standard on Boeing's forthcoming 787 Dreamliner, the new 737 Sky Interior features new multicolored LED lighting, larger overhead bins, increased headroom in the aisles and window tweaks that add additional natural light and the perception that the cabin is actually wider than existing models.
Boeing's 737 Gets New Look Peter Sanders 2010
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Just outside this cabin is a man probably dying from starvation.
CHAPTER 26 2010
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And quick as a wink she hustled them into the little house which they called a cabin, and gave Marmaduke a pair of blue overalls and a little blue jumper which belonged to one of the thirteen children.
Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson
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The big doors were opened, making the dining-room and the main cabin into one large room.
CHAPTER X 2010
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The tiny room was shared between Van Horn and Borckman, while the main cabin was occupied by the three-score and odd return boys.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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The companionway into the main cabin was a steep ladder, and down this, after his meal, Jerry was carried by the captain.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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The cabin is also further midship than it feels, with the relatively large 22-gallon tank sitting between the seats and the rear axle.
HW Cars: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG WestSide Highway Bound « 2010
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