Dictionary Definition
cabin
Noun
1 small room on a ship or boat where people
sleep
2 a small house built of wood; usually in a
wooded area
3 the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or
spacecraft where passengers are carried v : confine to a small
space, such as a cabin
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- ˈkæb.ɪn
- Rhymes with: -æbɪn
Noun
- 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: “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.” -From Life Drawing in the collection Violet Quill, Michael Grumley
- A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
- A private room on a ship.
- The captain's cabin.
- Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
- The captain's cabin.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
Translations
a small dwelling characteristic of the
frontier
a compartment on land
- Serbian: brvnara
a private room on a ship
the interior of a boat
the passenger area of an airplane
- ttbc French: cabine
- ttbc Italian: cabina
- ttbc Norwegian: tømmerhytte, hytte (2) lugar (3)
- ttbc Spanish: cabaña , cabina
See also
Extensive Definition
Cabin may refer to:
- Cabin (housing), small, roughly built house usually with a wood exterior and typically found in rural areas
- Log cabin, a small house built from logs
- Cottage, a dwelling, typically in a rural, or semi-rural location
Transportation
- Cabin (ship), an enclosed room generally on a ship
- Cabin cruiser - boat
- Cabin
(aircraft), an enclosed room generally on an aircraft
- Cabin crew - Flight attendants
- Cabin pressurization
- Cabin (truck), the driver/operator's compartment in a truck (lorry)
- Railway locomotive cabin
- Cabin car, a caboose
- Cabin cycle, a bicycle or motorcycle design similar to a Tuk-tuk or Auto rickshaw
Other
- Cabin Crew - Australian band
- Cabin Hill - a private primary school in Belfast
- Cabin in the Sky - 1940 musical
- Cabin Exchange - Scottish artists group
- Cabin Rights, also known as tomahawk rights, an American frontier claim to land
- Battle of Cabin Creek - US Civil War
Locations
- Cabins, West Virginia
- Bone Cabin Quarry - Wyoming
- Latimer Cabin historic site Panama City Beach, Florida
- Mayhew Cabin, Nebraska City, Nebraska
- Big Cabin, Oklahoma
- Cabin Bluff, Camden County, Georgia
- Log Cabin, Texas
- Settler's Cabin Park Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Slab Cabin Run, Centre County, PA
- Keith Cabin, Pittman, Florida
cabin in Japanese: キャビン
cabin in Swedish: Kabin