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cabin
English
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): /?kæb?n/
- Rhymes: -æb?n
Noun
cabin (plural cabins)
- (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.
- 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
- 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.
- 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
- (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
- A private room on a ship.
- The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
- A small room; an enclosed place.
- (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
Synonyms
- cell
- chamber
- hut
- pod
- shack
- shed
Antonyms
- hall
- palace
- villa
Derived terms
- cabin boy
- cabin cruiser
- log cabin
- signal cabin
Descendants
- ? French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
- ? Japanese: ???? (kyabin)
- ? Korean: ?? (kaebin)
Translations
Verb
cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)
- (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
- (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).
- 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:
- (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- cabin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cabin at OneLook Dictionary Search
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saeter
English
Etymology
Borrowed from:
- Norwegian Nynorsk sæter (obsolete spelling), seter, and Norwegian Bokmål seter, from Old Norse sætr, setr (“dairy lands, mountain pastures; residence, seat; setting (of the sun)”); and
- Swedish säter (“mountain pastures”);
all from Proto-Germanic *sitjan? (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is a doublet of sit.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?se?t?/, /?s?-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?se?t?/, /?s?-/, [-??]
- Homophones: satyr (GA pronunciation), setter (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?), -?t?(?)
- Hyphenation: sae?ter
Noun
saeter (plural saeters)
- A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
- A barn, cabin, dairy, or farm located in such a meadow.
- (Orkney, Shetland) A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling.
Alternative forms
- säter
- saether
- sæter (obsolete)
- seter
Translations
See also
- shieling
References
Further reading
- transhumance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Easter, Teresa, aretes, arsete, arêtes, asteer, earset, easter, eaters, ratees, reseat, seater, staree, teares, teaser
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- what does saeter mean
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