cabin cruiser
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈkæbɪn ˈkruːzər/
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- We were out on the same stretch of water last weekend in a cabin cruiser and stayed in the cabin most of the time because it was cold with hail showers.
- sailboats and cabin cruisers
- aft-cabin cruiser
- buy a cabin cruiser
Examples
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When she was young, she and Lily had spent countless hours on the lake in their parents' cabin cruiser and their sleek twenty-foot inboard motorboat.
Fiction book (2000) -
The boat was a new twenty-three-foot Uniflite fiberglass cabin cruiser.
Fiction book (1992) -
Warren went out with the family sometimes on the cabin cruiser, but he always stayed on board.
Fiction book (2000) -
Father bought the boat, a three-year-old cabin cruiser.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now that you're rich, maybe you'd like to buy a cabin cruiser.
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Offshore, near the limit of visibility, Abernathy saw a large cabin cruiser drifting in the current.
Fiction book (1991) -
Through my binoculars, I could see this nice forty-something-foot cabin cruiser anchored a few hundred yards offshore.
Fiction book (1998) -
So for a while we wandered around a marina near Virginia Beach full of sailboats and fat, stumpy cabin cruisers.
Academic text (2009) -
It is a twenty-seven-foot cabin cruiser, docked in Gloucester.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Zaffiro 32 is a spacious cabin cruiser that can also be used for fishing.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small vehicle used on water to carry people, like a rowboat or motorboat
698
3.3
A large boat or ship used for travel on water
36
5.4
A large motorboat with rooms where people live while traveling
21
2.8
A boat that people live in as their home on the water
1
5.1
A large motorboat with a cabin and bathroom for living on board
1
3.4
A boat with a motor and a cabin where people live and relax
1
3.5
A large private boat with engines used for pleasure cruising
How Livable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'cabin' (an enclosed room on a boat) + 'cruiser' (a motor yacht/boat), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a boat with onboard living facilities. This noun–noun compounding is transparent and cross-linguistically common, making the MWE immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
Cabin cruiser comes from two words: cabin meaning 'a small house on a boat' and cruiser meaning 'a boat that travels for pleasure'. The image is a motorboat with a little house on it that can travel, so cabin cruiser means 'a motorboat with a cabin for living'.