 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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
verb: confine to a small space, such as a cabin
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cabin \Cab"in\ verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cabined} (-[i^]nd); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Cabining}.]
To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
I'll make you . . . cabin in a cave. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cabin \Cab"in\, verb (used with an object)
To confine in, or as in, a cabin.
I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cabin \Cab"in\ (k[a^]b"[i^]n), noun [OF. caban, fr. W. caban
booth, cabin, dim. of cab cot, tent; or fr. F. cabane,
cabine, LL. cabanna, perh. from the Celtic.]
1. A cottage or small house; a hut. --Swift.
A hunting cabin in the west. --E. Everett.
2. A small room; an inclosed place.
So long in secret cabin there he held
Her captive. --Spenser.
3. A room in ship for officers or passengers.
{Cabin boy}, a boy whose duty is to wait on the officers and
passengers in the cabin of a ship.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
23 Moby Thesaurus words for "cabin":
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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