cabin
English
Etymology
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there.
Pronunciation
Noun
cabin (plural cabins)
- (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.
- Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
- 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
- And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- A private room on a ship.
- the captain's cabin: Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:
- Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
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Translations
small dwelling, especially one made of logs
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informal: chalet or lodge
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private room on a ship
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interior of a boat
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passenger area of an airplane
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section of passenger plane having same class of service
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signal box — see signal box
small room
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private office of a professional
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Verb
cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)
- (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
- (by extension) To limit the scope of.
- 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:
- There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
- 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
See also
Further reading
- “cabin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “cabin”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “cabin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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