cabin girl
- noun
- /ˈkæbɪn ɡɜrl/
- Archaic
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gobernanta
- As a cabin girl, she helped the officers with their meals and kept the quarters tidy.
Examples
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But Dad took me on as a cabin girl, saying I should learn the trade.
Fiction book (1998) -
Little sister Evie was the cabin girl.
Fiction book (2000) -
The ship's cabin girl ensured that all passengers received their requested items promptly.
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Everyone admired the young cabin girl for her hard work and cheerful attitude during the voyage.
Synonyms
11
5.3
A hotel worker who cleans and tidies guest bedrooms
7
3.5
A young woman who works in a house to help with chores
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5.1
A girl or young woman who works in a home doing chores
A woman who works with others on a ship, plane, or film set
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'cabin' (an enclosed room on a ship) with 'girl' (a young woman), yielding a female associated with work or duties in a ship's cabin. This is a straightforward compositional noun phrase following common English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase cabin girl comes from life on old ships. A cabin was the small room for passengers or officers and a girl was a young woman who cleaned and served there, so the term came to mean 'a young woman who works as a servant on a ship'.