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Is cabin a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cabin is a Scrabble US word. The word cabin is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is cabin a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cabin is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

CABIN,

4-letter words (3 found)

BANC,BANI,CAIN,

3-letter words (9 found)

AIN,ANI,BAC,BAN,BIN,CAB,CAN,NAB,NIB,

2-letter words (7 found)

AB,AI,AN,BA,BI,IN,NA,

You can make 20 words from cabin according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cabin

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Definitions and meaning of cabin

cabin

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (a cabin); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæbɪn/
  • Rhymes: -æbɪn

Noun

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.
  2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. A private room on a ship.
  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.
  9. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
  • Japanese: キャビン (kyabin)
  • Korean: 캐빈 (kaebin)

Translations

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple 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.

See also

  • cabana

Further reading

  • “cabin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “cabin”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “cabin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org