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CABIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cabin mean? 

CABIN (noun)
  The noun CABIN has 3 senses:

1. small room on a ship or boat where people sleepplay

2. a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded areaplay

3. the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carriedplay

  Familiarity information: CABIN used as a noun is uncommon.


CABIN (verb)
  The verb CABIN has 1 sense:

1. confine to a small space, such as a cabinplay

  Familiarity information: CABIN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CABIN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

Meronyms (parts of "cabin"):

overhead ((nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):

stateroom (a guest cabin)

Holonyms ("cabin" is a part of...):

liner; ocean liner (a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule))

Derivation:

cabin (confine to a small space, such as a cabin)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):

log cabin (a cabin built with logs)


Sense 3

Meaning:

The enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):

compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):

pressure cabin (cabin consisting of the pressurized section of an aircraft or spacecraft)

Holonyms ("cabin" is a part of...):

aircraft (a vehicle that can fly)

ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)

Derivation:

cabin (confine to a small space, such as a cabin)


CABIN (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Confine to a small space, such as a cabin

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "cabin" is one way to...):

confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

cabin (the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried)

cabin (small room on a ship or boat where people sleep)


 Context examples 


At one o'clock, looking toward the cabin, Hans announced that he was hungry.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You must have read in the account of the inquest about the man’s cabin, Mr. Holmes, but perhaps your friend here has not heard of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could not stand them any more than he could stand the stupid first-cabin passengers and the riotous young people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We held a council in the cabin.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The old captain spoke of the promotions by Parliamentary interest which had put many a youngster into the captain’s cabin when he should have been in the gun-room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During this last voyage I had no commerce with the master or any of his men; but, pretending I was sick, kept close in my cabin.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We attempted to carry him into the cabin, but as soon as he had quitted the fresh air he fainted.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the cabin he lay on the floor near the stove, without interest in food, in Matt, nor in life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

They hauled cabin logs and firewood, freighted up to the mines, and did all manner of work that horses did in the Santa Clara Valley.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"I'll be tellin' ye quick!" he answered, and, stepping down to his cabin, produced a receipt signed "Immanuel Hildesheim."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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