cabin

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkæbɪn/ Rhymes: -æbɪn === Noun === cabin (plural cabins) (US) 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. Synonyms: hut, shack, shed (informal) 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. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service. (rail transport, informal) A signal box. A small room; an enclosed place. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional. ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → French: cabine (see there for further descendants) → Hawaiian: kāpena → Japanese: キャビン (kyabin) → Korean: 캐빈 (kaebin) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined) (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space. (by extension) To limit the scope of. 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11: There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd). (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge. === See also === cabana === Further reading === “cabin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “cabin”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “cabin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.