cabin
noun
[ ˈkabɪn ]
• a private room or compartment on a ship.
• "she lay in her cabin on a steamer"
Similar:
berth,
stateroom,
compartment,
room,
deckhouse,
sleeping quarters,
forecabin,
outside cabin,
roundhouse,
passenger area,
passenger accommodation,
cab,
• a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area.
• "the cabin lay three miles into the reserve"
Similar:
hut,
log cabin,
shanty,
shack,
shed,
chalet,
bothy,
shieling,
shiel,
but and ben,
cabana,
tilt,
mia-mia,
gunyah,
humpy,
whare,
hok,
cot,
shebang,
• a cubicle or individual work space within a larger office.
cabin
verb
• confine within narrow bounds.
• "once loosed, the idea of equality is not easily cabined"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French cabane, from Provençal cabana, from late Latin capanna, cavanna .
