cabin
A private room on a ship.
Example
“Passengers shall remain in their cabins.”
Other meanings
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
The passenger area of an airplane.
A kind of
- compartment
Related words
- cabinet
- cabinette
- cabinful
- cabinless
- cabinlike
- cabinmate
- forecabin
- cabin compass
- portacabin
- aftercabin
- cabin boy
- cabin attendant
Word history
From Medieval Latin "capanna" (a cabin).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cabin” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.