Noun

(en noun)

(lb) 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.

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*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.

(lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.

A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.

A private room on a ship.

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*: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.

The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.

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The passenger area of an airplane.

The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

A signal box.

A small room; an enclosed place.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.

Noun

(en noun)

The place where one lives.

* Macaulay

Johnson took up his residence in London.

A building used as a home.

The place where a corporation is established.

The state of living in a particular place or environment.

* Sir M. Hale

The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

The place where anything rests permanently.

* Milton

But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.

subsidence, as of a sediment

(Francis Bacon)

That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

(Jeremy Taylor)