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/ˈkæbɪn/ · noun
(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.
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.
the captain’s cabin
Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
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.
Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.
Use cabin when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cabin means (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..
Common synonyms include cell, chamber, pod, hut.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
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