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cabin

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Buildings, Water, Air
cab·in /ˈkæbɪn/ ●●○ noun [countable]  1 TBBHOMEa small house, especially one built of wood in an area of forest or mountains 〔尤指建于林中或山上的〕小木屋 a log cabin 原木小屋2. TTWa small room on a ship in which you live or sleep 〔船上的〕舱3 TTAan area inside a plane where the passengers sit or where the pilot works 〔飞机上的〕客舱,驾驶舱 the First Class cabin 头等舱
Examples from the Corpus
cabinI made storm shields for the big cabin windows and skylights.Above: The elaborately decorated cabin of a narrow boat.a log cabinCost: $ 1,795 and $ 1,995 depending on cabin selection.Some are planning getaways to private cabins.Royalties earned from the publications have purchased land upon which students have reconstructed cabins and preserved cultural artifacts.Suddenly, one of the young men picked up a bag and walked into the pilot's cabin!The piles of sawdust from all my work in back of the cabin seemed too good to waste.Her owner's full width cabin, plus four equal guest cabins give her a unique and pleasing layout.log cabinHe lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake, his only company a portable radio and television.How a self-made man should always say he was born in something like a log cabin, preferably with no running water.The reality of a painted postcard of a log cabin and box of arrowheads disappeared.The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof in the middle of a clearing.They settled in Prairieville in Barry County, cleared land, and put up a log cabin and later a proper house.Genuine pre-fab log cabins hitched up to the mains.Sometimes I am in the log cabin, looking at it; other times I am wandering through it.
Origin cabin (1300-1400) Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana small wooden building, from Medieval Latin capanna
cab·in nounChineseSyllable
an in wood a one house, small built Corpus of especially


cabin
cabin /ˈkæbən, ˈkæbɪn/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: cabane, from Old Provençal cabana 'small wooden building', from Medieval Latin capanna
1. a small house, especially one built of wood in an area of forest or mountains:
    a log cabin
2. a small room on a ship in which you live or sleep
3. an area inside a plane where the passengers sit or where the pilot works:
    the First Class cabin


cabinBrE /ˈkæbɪn/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkæbɪn/ 🔊 nouna small room on a ship in which you live or sleep (轮船上生活或睡觉的)隔间
one of the areas for passengers to sit in a plane (飞机的)座舱
a small house or shelter, usually made of wood (通常为木制的)小屋,小棚屋a log cabin原木小屋