Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Cabin |
CabinNoun1. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep. 2. A small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area. 3. The enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried. Verb1. Confine to a small space, such as a cabin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cabin" was first used: 1346. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in{sic} a dream. Some mischief is brewing for you. You will most likely be engaged in a law suit, in which you will lose from the unstability of your witness. For log cabin, see house. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A compartment in a ship set apart as a living and sleeping space for an officer, crew member or passenger. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Enclosure for aircraft occupants, formerly in contradiction to open cockpit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CABIN | English | Campaign Against Building Industry Nationalization | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We have just lost cabin pressure (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) In the back of the cabin on the right side, Leo (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin) It sounds like a gorilla eating a log cabin! (Mission Hill; writing credit: Aaron Ehasz; Andrew Kreisberg) Will hiding in a cabin with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) | |
Lyrics | There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood (Johnny B. Goode; performing artist: Chuck Berry) You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome (You're My Home; performing artist: Joe) In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Common Law Cabin (1967) Crabbin' in the Cabin (1948) Cabin in the Sky (1943) Nutty Pine Cabin (1942) The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
References | |||
Books | |||
Periodicals |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Cabin on Knight Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | George Davidson observation cabin at San Luis Obispo, California Believe that Davidson is seated on left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Old settler's cabin in Wide Bay - Shelikof Straits area. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | NWS employee Sarah Roy faces an onslaught of cabin cruisers and an impending storm as she nears the end of a 25-mile trek down the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | "The cabin." This was the captain's quarters. The individual sitting is Zera Luther Tanner, first commanding officer of the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS" , by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate III. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Velma Cardwell works on a quilt at the Cabin Creek Quilters in Charleston, WVA. Credit: USDA. |
![]() | Dallie Short a quilter with Cabin Creek Quilts in Charlestion, WVA., inspects a finished quilt. Credit: USDA. | Cabin in Yukon Flats NWR. Credit: Lisa Holzapfel. | |
Old log cabin. Credit: Unknown. | ![]() | Boys Fishing at Sid Olmid Cabin, Moser Bay. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
![]() | ![]() |
| "Cabin" by Brian Dimarucot Commentary: "Really bored inside the plane =)." | "Old Fashion" by Kristoffer Rekstad Commentary: "Picture captured in a cabin far up in the norwegian mountains. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | ) He told us he met an old man there in a mountain cabin. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The reader may remember what I related when my crew conspired against me and confined me to my cabin. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A summer cabin closed up all winter is probably full of molds and should be aired out and cleaned before a mold-sensitive person stays there. (references) | |
Business | ATR’s new generation ATR42-500 and ATR 72-500 versions are the latest addition to the family, incorporating a redesigned cabin interior and a series of upgrades. (references) | |
Economic History | Morocco | The engines are from Allison Rolls Royce out of Cincinnati and the cabin design is manufactured by C&D, a California firm. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cabin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Cabin" is used about 1,073 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.81% | 1,071 | 7,015 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,073 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Cabin Co., Ltd. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "cabin": allowable cabin load ♦ big Cabin ♦ cabin air temperature indicator ♦ cabin altitude and differential pressure indicator ♦ cabin altitude warning ♦ cabin attendants ♦ cabin boy ♦ cabin car ♦ cabin class ♦ cabin Creek ♦ cabin crew ♦ cabin cruiser ♦ cabin floor ♦ cabin John ♦ cabin liner ♦ cabin luggage ♦ cabin pressure altitude ♦ cabin pressure controller ♦ cabin rate of climb indicator ♦ cabin rear bulkhead ♦ cabin scooter ♦ cabin sidewall ♦ cabin trunk ♦ deck cabin ♦ Fore cabin ♦ log cabin ♦ lookout cabin ♦ passenger cabin ♦ pressure cabin ♦ pressurized cabin ♦ sealed cabin ♦ single cabin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cabin": cabin-boy, cabin-fever, cabin-house, cabin-lights, cabin-like, cabin-style, cabin-top, cabin-trunk, cabin-trunks, cabin-window trim panels. | |
Ending with "cabin": log-cabin. | |
Containing "cabin": forward-cabin passenger seating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cabin | 4,431 | colorado cabin | 264 |
mountain cabin | 3,472 | log cabin plan | 232 |
cabin rental | 3,048 | cabin fever | 230 |
log cabin | 2,647 | maggie valley cabin | 212 |
tennessee cabin | 1,765 | north carolina cabin | 205 |
smoky mountain cabin | 1,499 | smoky mountain cabin rental | 203 |
gatlinburg cabin | 1,226 | cabin rental maine | 201 |
pigeon forge cabin rental | 978 | cabin tent | 186 |
pigeon forge cabin | 858 | cabin in gatlinburg | 175 |
cabin plan | 845 | log cabin democrat | 166 |
log cabin kit | 619 | cabin for rent | 166 |
yosemite cabin | 568 | smokey mountain cabin rental | 153 |
gatlinburg cabin rental | 470 | cabin ohio | 152 |
log cabin home | 410 | cabin rental north carolina | 145 |
cabin kit | 354 | big bear cabin rental | 143 |
uncle toms cabin | 313 | log cabin rental | 143 |
smokey mountain cabin | 299 | michigan cabin | 137 |
lake tahoe cabin | 277 | vacation cabin | 135 |
tennessee cabin rental | 269 | lake tahoe cabin rental | 133 |
big bear cabin | 267 | arkansas cabin | 132 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cabin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtëpizë verimi, kasolle (bothy, cot, hut, sconce, shack, shanty, shelter), kabini, kabinë (booth, cab, capsule, car, cockpit, kiosk). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوخ (camp, chalet, cot, cottage, crib, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), قمره, قمرة (roomette), حجرة في السفينة, حجرة في الطائرة, حجرة خصوصية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хижа (box, hovel, hut, rest house, shanty), колиба (bothy, cot, crib, hovel, hut, kennel, shack, shanty, wickiup), каюта (berth), кабина (booth, box, cab, cage, gondola). (various references) | |
Catalan | cabina. (various references) | |
Chinese | 艙 (the hold of a ship or airplane), 倉 (barn, granary, hold, storehouse), 小屋 (lodge), 客舱 (Cabins). (various references) | |
Czech | chatrè (hovel, hut, shack, shanty), chata (hut, loghouse, shack, summer cottage), srub (log cabin, log hut), kajuta, kabina (cab, cage, car, round house), bouda (booth, hoax, hut, hutch, stall). (various references) | |
Danish | kahyt, hytte (hut, shack). (various references) | |
Dutch | hut (cottage, hut, shack), stulp (hut, shack), kajuit, cabine. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kajuto, kabano (hut, shack). (various references) | |
Faeroese | smátta (cottage, hut, shack), kahútt, hola (cave, cavern, cavity, den, hut, shack). (various references) | |
Farsi | کلبه (Cabana, Cottage, Hovel, Hull, Hut, Lodge, Shack, Shanty), کابین (Cabana), اطاق کوچک . (various references) | |
Finnish | hytti (stateroom). (various references) | |
French | cabine (cab), hutte, cabane (log cabin). (various references) | |
Frisian | klinte (hut, shack), kajút, hutte (hut, shack). (various references) | |
German | Kabine (booth, car, changing room, cubicle, stateroom), Kajüte (stateroom), Hütte (barn, booth, cot, cottage, hovel, hut, iron and steel works, Lodge, poop, shack, shanty, shed, stand, tabernacle). (various references) | |
Greek | καμπίνα (berth). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | kabini. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תא הנהג (cab), תא (box, cell, chamber, compartment, cubicle, room), ביתן (hut, kiosk, pavilion, shack, ward). (various references) | |
Hungarian | utastér, faház (chalet, timber house, wooden house), fülke (box, chamber, chase, closet, compartment, niche, subdivision, traverse). (various references) | |
Icelandic | káeta. (various references) | |
Indonesian | pondok (cot, cottage, hostel, hovel, hut, lodge), kabin, dangau (loom up). (various references) | |
Irish | cábán. (various references) | |
Italian | cabina (bathing hut, booth, cab, cage), capanna (booth, cabana, cot, hut, hutch, shack). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 船室 (stateroom), 小屋 (animal pen, hut, shed), 小屋 (hut, pen, shed), キャビネ判 (cabbage, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes), ケトン酸 (Kenya, ketonic acid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せんしつ (stateroom), こや (hut, pen, shed), キャビン , ケビン . (various references) | |
Korean | 오두막 (Cabins, hut). (various references) | |
Manx | shamyr lhuingey, carbyd (bier, bus, coach, hearse, stretcher, vehicle), cabbane (cab, cage in lift, deck house, flight deck, house, saloon, tabernacle), bwaane (booth, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, hut, kiosk, outhouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, stall, stand), bwaag (booth, bower, cobble, round stone; shed, small shop, tent), ard-choyrle (High Council, praesidium). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kahytt, hytte (cottage, hut, lodge, shack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abincay.(various references) | |
Polish | chata (hut, shack), kajuta, kabina. (various references) | |
Portuguese | camarote (baignoire, box), cabana (bothy, cabana, cot, cottage, crib, hangar, hovel, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), cabine (berth, booth), choupana (barrack, bothy, cot, crib, hole, hovel, hut, lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references) | |
Romanian | casã simplã, cabinå, cabinã (berth, booth, compartment, cuddy, hutch, state room), cabanå (hut, shack), bordei (booth, cottage, hovel, hut, kennel), baracã (barrack, booth, hut, penthouse, shanty, shed), închide într-un loc strâmt. (various references) | |
Russian | хижина;кабина, хижина (crib, humpy, hut, shack, wickiup), каюта (stateroom), кабина (booth, cockpit), закрытая кабина, будка (barn, booth, cab, cope, shed, stand, tollbooth, tollhouse), блокпост (post, signal box, signal-box), прицепная кабина, домик (lodge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kabina (booth, car, deck cabin). (various references) | |
Spanish | camarote (berth, stateroom), cabina (barn, bathing box, booth, cab, cubicle, locker, shed, sleeping compartment, stand), cabana (hut, shack), cabaña (balk, baulk, cabana, cottage, hootch, hovel, hut). (various references) | |
Swahili | kibanda (hut, shack). (various references) | |
Swedish | koja (crib, hut), kajuta, hytt (hut, shack). (various references) | |
Thai | เด็กรับใช้บนเรือ (cabin boy), ผู้โดยสารเรือชั้นกลาง (cabin class). (various references) | |
Turkish | kulübe (booth, box, Cote, cottage, crib, hovel, hut, hutch, kiosk, kiosque, Lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kaяuta (stateroom). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кабіна літака (nacelle), барліг (couch, den, lair), будиночок (pillbox), будка (booth, box, kiosk), лігво (couch, covert, den, lair, lie), жити в тісноті, печера (antre, cave, cavern, grotto), кабіна (booth, cage, car), утримувати в тісному приміщенні, каюта (berth), котедж (cabana, cottage), тулитися (nest, nestle), халупа (barrack, bothy, hovel, shack, shebang), хатина (barrack, crib, hut, shanty), салон (salon, saloon), жити в хатині. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cabin, túp lều. (various references) | |
Welsh | caban (booth), bwthyn (cottage, hut). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | canaba, casa. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | capanna. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | barraca. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | cahute. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cabin": cabined, cabinet, cabinetmaker, cabinetmakers, cabinetmaking, cabinetmakings, cabinetries, cabinetry, cabinets, cabinetwork, cabinetworks, cabining, cabins. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cabin": noncabinet, noncabinets, subcabinet, supercabinet, supercabinets. (additional references) | |
| |
"Cabin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abin, Babin, bacin, caain, cabai, caban, cabat, cabbin, Cabbing, Cabeo, cabey, cabie, Cabiin, cabini, cabint, cabiny, cabit, Cablink, cabo, Caboc, cafine, cagion, cain, caiun, cajin, cakin, Cambien, cambion, Camijn, camin, canban, canbin, canin, Caobang, capin, Carbi, Carin, casin, catin, caubeen, cavinu, Cazin, cbi, Ccbi, Cefin, cein, Chabang, Chabi, cibie, cibum, coalbin, cobi, cobian, cubin, cubip, Culbin, kaban, Kabin, Kabun, kacin, Kubin, labin, mabin, Mcbaine, sabbin, sabji, sarbin, scabini, shabini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cabin" (pronounced ka"bun) |
| 4 | -a" b u n | graben. |
| 3 | -b u n | bobbin, bourbon, carbon, corban, fluorocarbon, Gibbon, hemoglobin, hydrocarbon, interurban, jacobin, Leben, psilocybin, ribbon, Robin, suburban, turban, urban. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-n" | |
-1 letter: bani, cain. | |
-2 letters: ain, ani, ban, bin, cab, can, nab, nib. | |
-3 letters: ab, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-n" | |
+1 letter: bonaci, cabins. | |
+2 letters: albinic, baching, backing, bonacis, botanic, bracing, cabbing, cabined, cabinet, cabling, carabin, carbine, coalbin, corbina, finback, jacobin, minicab. | |
+3 letters: abducing, abidance, abscisin, ambiance, ambience, anabatic, anabolic, backings, backspin, bacterin, baculine, banausic, barbican, baryonic, batching, beaching, billycan, binnacle, bioclean, blackfin, blacking, boniface, botanica, bracings, braconid, brainiac, branchia, brisance, bronchia, cabinets, cabining, cannabic, cannabin, cannabis, cannibal, carabine, carabins, carbines, carbinol, carbonic, cinnabar, coalbins, coinable, corbinas, crabbing, finbacks, incubate, jacobins, minicabs, nonbasic, publican, rabbinic, scabbing, vibrance, vibrancy, wingback. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Company Usage 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.