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“cabin” – English explanatory dictionary

of the night up the Hudson, they didn't have a cabin
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noun 1. a small room on a ship ○ We booked a first-class cabin on the cruise. ○ She felt sick and went to lie down in her cabin. 2. a small hut ○ He has a cabin by a lake where he goes fishing. 3. the inside of an aircraft ○ The aircraft is divided into three separate cabins. ○ The first-class cabin is in the front of the plane.
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cab´in
(kab´in), n. [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.
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cab´in
v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabined (-ind); p. pr. & vb. n. Cabining.] To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. “I’ll make you … cabin in a cave.
Shak.
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cab´in
v. t. To confine in, or as in, a cabin. “I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Shak.
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Meaning of “cabin” in English language – noun 1. a small room on a ship ○ We book...
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