cabin

  • 11cabin — [[t]kæ̱bɪn[/t]] cabins 1) N COUNT A cabin is a small room in a ship or boat. He showed her to a small cabin. 2) N COUNT A cabin is one of the areas inside a plane. He sat quietly in the First Class cabin of the British Airways flight looking… …

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  • 12cabin — cab•in [[t]ˈkæb ɪn[/t]] n. 1) archit. a small house or cottage, usu. of simple design and construction: a log cabin[/ex] 2) an enclosed space for more or less temporary occupancy, as the living quarters in a trailer or the passenger space in a… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 13cabin — n. & v. n. 1 a small shelter or house, esp. of wood. 2 a room or compartment in an aircraft or ship for passengers or crew. 3 a driver s cab. v.tr. (cabined, cabining) confine in a small place, cramp. Phrases and idioms: cabin boy a boy who waits …

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  • 14cabin — [14] English acquired cabin from Old French cabane, which had it via Provençal cabana from late Latin capanna or cavanna ‘hut, cabin’. Surprisingly, despite their formal and semantic similarity, which has grown closer together over the centuries …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 15cabin — noun 1) a ship s cabin Syn: berth, stateroom, compartment 2) a cabin by the lake Syn: hut, log cabin, shanty, shack, chalet; Scottish bothy; N.Amer. cabana …

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  • 16cabin */*/ — UK [ˈkæbɪn] / US noun [countable] Word forms cabin : singular cabin plural cabins 1) a private room on a ship for a passenger or one of the people working on the ship 2) the part of a plane where the passengers sit 3) a small simple wooden house… …

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  • 17cabin — [14] English acquired cabin from Old French cabane, which had it via Provençal cabana from late Latin capanna or cavanna ‘hut, cabin’. Surprisingly, despite their formal and semantic similarity, which has grown closer together over the centuries …

    Word origins

  • 18cabin — noun ˈkæb.ɪn a) 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. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin. b) A… …

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  • 19cabin — noun Cabin is used before these nouns: ↑crew, ↑cruiser, ↑steward Cabin is used after these nouns: ↑log, ↑mountain, ↑passenger …

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  • 20cabin — Synonyms and related words: berth, blockhouse, box, bungalow, chalet, compartment, cot, cote, cottage, cuddy, deckhouse, house, hut, lodge, log cabin, love nest, pied a terre, saloon, shack, shanty, shelter cabin, snuggery, stateroom …

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