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say it: kab
cab is a noun and verb meaning "a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits". It is pronounced /ˈkæb/ — kab. It carries 4 recorded senses.
a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cab come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.