• IPA: /ˈkæbɪn/

cabin (plural cabins)

1. (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.

   Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.

   • 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill

     And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.

2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
3. A private room on a ship.

   the captain's cabin:  Passengers shall remain in their cabins.

   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828 ↗:

     There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
5. The passenger area of an airplane.
6. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
7. (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
8. A small room; an enclosed place.

   • So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.

9. (Indian English) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

• cell
• chamber
• hut
• pod
• shack
• shed

• hall
• palace
• villa

• French: cabane
• German: Hütte, Blockhütte
• Italian: capanna, rustico
• Portuguese: cabana
• Russian: хи́жина
• Spanish: barraca, cabaña

• French: cabine
• German: Kabine, Kajüte
• Italian: cabina
• Portuguese: cabine
• Russian: каю́та
• Spanish: cabina

• German: Kajüte
• Italian: cabina
• Portuguese: cabina, camarote
• Russian: каби́на
• Spanish: camarote

• Italian: cabina
• Portuguese: cabine
• Russian: сало́н
• Spanish: cabina

cabin (cabins, present participle cabining; past and past participle cabined)

1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
2. (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).

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
   • c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.