cabin

[cabĀ·in]

A small wooden hut or cottage can be called a cabin, especially if it's in a remote or wooded place. Your grandfather's cabin on a lake might be your favorite place to visit in the summer.

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A cottage or small house; a hut.

Noun
the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried

Noun
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep

Noun
a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area

Verb
confine to a small space, such as a cabin


n.
A cottage or small house; a hut.

n.
A small room; an inclosed place.

n.
A room in ship for officers or passengers.

v. i.
To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

v. t.
To confine in, or as in, a cabin.


Cabin

Cab"in , n. [OF. caban, fr. W. caban booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane, cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.] 1. A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift.
A hunting cabin in the west.
2. A small room; an inclosed place.
So long in secret cabin there he held Her captive.
3. A room in ship for officers or passengers. Cabin boy, a boy whose duty is wait on the officers and passengers in the cabin of a ship.

Cabin

Cab"in v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabined (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabining.] To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave.

Cabin

Cab"in, v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

A cottage or small house; a hut.

To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

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Usage Examples

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right now?

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

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