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masculine

/ka.bi.nɛ/

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Translation

surgery, practice, office; the Cabinet

Word origin

A diminutive of Old French cabine ('small room, cabin'), itself linked to cabane ('hut'), from Late Latin capanna. The sense of a small private room gave both the furniture and the inner circle of ministers who met in it.

Origin: Old French
Root: cabine
English cognates: cabinet, cabin, cabana

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluralcabinets

Examples

Renard .

Doctor Renard's surgery opens at eight o'clock.

' Lyon.

She works in a law practice in Lyon.

J' - au .

I have an appointment at the surgery on Tuesday morning.

The minister called his cabinet together at short notice.

largement.

That little study is quite enough for him.

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This word is part of lesson 34.