cabana

[ kuh-ban-uh, -ban-yuh, -bah-nuh, -bahn-yuh ]

noun

1. a small cabin or tentlike structure for use as a bathhouse, especially on a beach or by a swimming pool.
2. a cabin or cottage.

cabana

/ kəˈbɑːnə /

noun

1. a tent used as a dressing room by the sea

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabana¹

1830–40; < Spanish cabaña; cabin

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabana¹

from Spanish cabaña: cabin

Example Sentences

While you might not think this style would make sense for bringing out for a day at the beach, the best beach cabana tents can be set up quickly, collapsed, and easily transported.

From Popular-Science

Private cabanas with walls and windows contain kids with no worry of bumping into other diners’ chairs or tables.

From Eater

Our local pizza restaurant, still closed to indoor dining, built individual streetside cabanas outfitted with green turf under the table.

From Eater

Every reservation will include a bottle of Rose Bubbly, and cabana reservations will come with a bonus celebration kit!

From Washington Blade

Unfortunately, many of these structures — think yurts, igloos, solariums, and cabanas — prohibit the free movement of air that makes outdoor dining much safer than eating indoors.

From Eater

Which beaches attract the daily residents, weekend-cabana commuters, and weekly-house-rental vacationers?

From The Daily Beast

There Felicidad is staying in the cabana of my mother, and to there I shall be glad to guide you.

From Project Gutenberg

Quesada made his way into the cabana where he had left Felicidad.

From Project Gutenberg

Ah, there has been some little domestic trouble in her cabana this night!

From Project Gutenberg

The five Competitor prisoners have been released from Cabana fortress after an imprisonment of nearly twenty months.

From Project Gutenberg

And what poor serrano can provision his good wife and his cabana full of lusty brats by hunting the Spanish ibex?

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• box
• bungalow
• cabin
• chalet
• cot
• cottage
• hovel
• lean-to
• lodge
• shack
• shanty
• shed
• shelter
• summer house