cabin

[ kab-in ]

noun

1. a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction:

   He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.

   Synonyms: cottage, shack, shanty, cot

2. an enclosed space for more or less temporary occupancy, as the living quarters in a trailer or the passenger space in a cable car.
3. the enclosed space for the pilot, cargo, or especially passengers in an air or space vehicle.
4. an apartment or room in a ship, as for passengers.
5. cabin class.
6. (in a naval vessel) living accommodations for officers.

   Synonyms: compartment

adverb

1. in cabin-class accommodations or by cabin-class conveyance:

   to travel cabin.

verb (used without object)

1. to live in a cabin:

   They cabin in the woods on holidays.

verb (used with object)

1. to confine; enclose tightly; cramp.

cabin

/ ˈkæbɪn /

noun

1. a small simple dwelling; hut
2. a simple house providing accommodation for travellers or holiday-makers at a motel or holiday camp
3. a room used as an office or living quarters in a ship
4. a covered compartment used for shelter or living quarters in a small boat
5. (in a warship) the compartment or room reserved for the commanding officer
6. See signal box
   another name for signal box
7. 1. the enclosed part of a light aircraft in which the pilot and passengers sit
   2. the part of an airliner in which the passengers are carried
   3. the section of an aircraft used for cargo

verb

1. to confine in a small space

Other Words From

• un·cabined adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabin¹

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English cabane, from Middle French, from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna, of uncertain, perhaps pre-Latin origin; spelling with “i” perhaps by influence of French cabine ( cabinet )

Word History and Origins

Origin of cabin¹

C14: from Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna hut

Example Sentences

Cold weather increases electric energy consumption, as the car runs the cabin heat, defrosters, seat heaters, and lights.

From Popular-Science

You may not be invited to your coworker’s cabin again, but you’ll be a better guest—and a more reliable friend—in the future.

From Outside Online

She had read about the way air molecules circulate inside a plane cabin, bouncing from one stranger to the next.

From Washington Post

Over the holidays, while my wife and I were hiking around our cabin in northern Montana, just outside Glacier National Park, temperatures ranged from the low teens to the mid-forties.

From Outside Online

This means you get as much outside air as possible to mix with the air inside the cabin and then flush it out.

From Washington Post

Looking through photographs from the early days of U.S. airlines, I found a shot of the cabin of the Boeing 247, circa 1934.

From The Daily Beast

They wanted Jet Blue to squeeze more passengers into the cabin.

From The Daily Beast

In the same cabin, the business class has flat beds with a 70-inch pitch.

From The Daily Beast

In the special, Workman plays the old man who, as a cabin boy, watched the pirates bury their treasure.

From The Daily Beast

And what of the six passengers in the cabin behind the crew?

From The Daily Beast

The latter trod on the toes of the former, whereupon the former threatened to "kick out of the cabin" the latter.

From Project Gutenberg

Dinner was spread in the cabin of that peerless steamer, the New World, and a splendid company were assembled about the table.

From Project Gutenberg

But he was so surprisingly dexterous with his lips, and feet too, when he was in his cabin that I suppose I put them down to that.

From Project Gutenberg

I pulled the saddle off my horse, slapped it down on the dirt floor, and went stalking up to the long cabin.

From Project Gutenberg

They slept at a miserable cabin in one of the clearings, and at early dawn pushed on, reaching the Cahuilla village before noon.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• box
• camp
• chalet
• compartment
• cottage
• home
• hut
• lodge
• room
• shack
• shanty
• shed
• shelter