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cabin is a noun and verb meaning "small room on a ship or boat where people sleep". It carries 4 recorded senses.
small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
confine to a small space, such as a cabin
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 cabin 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.