cabin
cabin — noun
1. a small one-room or two-room house, often built from logs or wooden boards, that
a small one-room or two-room house, often built from logs or wooden boards, that people use as a holiday home or a basic place to live in the countryside.
Marcus built a tiny log cabin beside the lake using pine trees from his land.
noun phrase: log cabin
The Watanabe family rented a wooden cabin in the mountains for the winter holiday.
collocation: rent a cabin
Smoke rose from the chimney of a small cabin hidden among the tall fir trees.
Maya unpacked her sleeping bag in cabin number seven on her first night at summer camp.
Lina warmed her hands by the wood stove inside the old hunting cabin.
文法句型
a cabin in/on [place]
log cabin
用法筆記
Usually paired with a wood-related modifier (log, wooden, timber) or a setting modifier (mountain, lakeside, hunting). Suggests a rustic or holiday context, not a normal urban home.
常見錯誤
2. a private bedroom built into a ship, usually below the main deck, where one pass
a private bedroom built into a ship, usually below the main deck, where one passenger or crew member can sleep, change clothes, and store luggage during the voyage.
Sarah shared a tiny cabin with two narrow beds on the ferry to Hokkaido.
pattern: share a cabin with [someone]
Carlos paid an extra two hundred dollars a night for a cabin with a sea view on the cruise.
collocation: cabin with a sea view
Carlos stored his suitcase under the bed in his cabin before heading to the deck.
The captain's cabin had a desk, a bookshelf, and a round window above the bed.
文法句型
a cabin on [a ship/boat]
share a cabin with [someone]
用法筆記
Common collocations: outside cabin (with a window), inside cabin (no window), first-class cabin. The preposition 'on' is used for the ship as a whole; 'in' is used for inside the cabin itself.
常見錯誤
3. the enclosed seating area inside a plane where passengers travel during a flight
the enclosed seating area inside a plane where passengers travel during a flight; the same word is sometimes used for the equivalent space in a spacecraft or large vehicle.
The flight attendants asked everyone in the cabin to fasten their seat belts before takeoff.
preposition: in the cabin
Lights in the cabin were dimmed so passengers could sleep on the flight to London.
Sarah walked through the business-class cabin and found her wide seat near the window.
Dr. Tanaka glanced toward the back of the cabin when a baby started crying in row 32.
Cabin pressure dropped suddenly, and yellow oxygen masks fell from the ceiling above each seat.
- compartment
more general; can also mean a small section inside the cabin
- passenger area
descriptive phrase rather than a single noun; clearer for non-aviation contexts
- cockpit
the front section where the pilot controls the plane
文法句型
the cabin of [a plane]
in the cabin
用法筆記
Frequently used in fixed compounds: cabin crew, cabin pressure, cabin baggage, cabin class. Distinguish from sense 2 (ship): the plane sense covers the whole passenger area, not a private bedroom.
常見錯誤
4. a small partitioned booth, often glass-walled, placed inside a workplace such as
a small partitioned booth, often glass-walled, placed inside a workplace such as a factory, station, or warehouse, where one staff member sits to check people in, sell tickets, or do paperwork.
The security guard waved Marcus through from a glass cabin near the factory gate.
collocation: glass cabin / security cabin
Each ticket seller works in a tiny cabin beside the platform at the bus station.
Lina knocked on the supervisor's cabin window to ask for a new shift schedule.
A wooden cabin in the corner of the warehouse served as the foreman's office.
文法句型
a cabin in/inside [a building]
用法筆記
More common in British English; American English often prefers 'booth', 'cubicle', or 'office'. Subject inside a cabin is usually a single role-holder (guard, clerk, supervisor), not a team.
常見錯誤
cabin — verb
1. to keep a person or animal in a tight, closed-in space so that they cannot move
to keep a person or animal in a tight, closed-in space so that they cannot move freely; often used in writing to describe forced limits on freedom.
For three weeks the prisoners were cabined inside a windowless basement beneath the courthouse.
passive: be cabined inside [place]
A blizzard cabined Marcus and his dog in their pickup truck overnight on the mountain road.
active: [force] cabin [someone] in [place]
Aunt Rosa hated being cabined up in the back seat between the children's car seats.
The Supreme Court cabined the new privacy law within a narrow set of medical cases.
文法句型
be cabined in [a place]
cabin [someone] up
用法筆記
Almost always passive in modern usage. Often appears with 'in', 'up', or 'within'. In legal and political writing it can also mean to limit a power or rule, not just a person — for example, 'the ruling cabins executive authority'.