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feminine

/ka.bin/

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Translation

cabin, booth, cubicle

Word origin

Borrowed from English cabin, which had itself come from Old French cabane ('hut'). The word travelled out and back with a narrower nautical sense.

Origin: English
Root: cabin
English cognates: cabin

Grammar

Genderfeminine

Pluralcabines

Examples

The ship's cabin is very small.

The beach huts are shut in winter.

He is ringing from a phone box in the street.

The pilot left the cockpit during the flight.

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Wait for me in the cubicle, I am on my way.

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This word is part of lesson 47.