HOW TO PRONOUNCE
cabin
/ˈkæbən/
Press play to hear how to pronounce cabin.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:05
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does cabin mean?
noun
- 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.
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- A private room on a ship.
More meanings (9)
noun
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- (informal) A signal box.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
verb
- To place in a cabin or other small space.
- To limit the scope of.
- (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˈkæbən/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
He started and run round and round the cabin, hollering “Take him off! take him off! he’s biting me on the neck!”
The lamps also were still useable, and thus the interior of the cabin appeared as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan.
More book examples (3)
This time he was so close the cabin that he could carry her into the house and lay her on the bed.
Lost in a heavy sleep in which they had been totally unconscious, they had been astonished at finding themselves in their cabin.
This distressingly new board house is his, and he has just moved out of yonder moss-grown cabin with its one square room.