cabin

Meanings

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.
• A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
• A private room on a ship.
• The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
• The passenger area of an airplane.
• The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
• A signal box.
• A small room; an enclosed place.
• A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

Verb

• To place in a cabin or other small space.
• To limit the scope of.
• To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

Related

Similar words

• cell
• chamber
• hut
• pod
• shack
• shed

Opposite words

• hall
• palace
• villa

Origin

• From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna ("a cabin"); see further etymology there. cabana.