log cabin
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- noun
- /lɔg ˈkæbɪn/
- He built a rustic log cabin by the river, perfect for weekend getaways.
- build a log cabin
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Watch on YouTubeI would say, Hey, would you want to build a log cabin?
- I would say, Hey, would you want to build a log cabin?
- It's like a old school log cabin and it's just got a little loft up top with a bed.
- So we grew up in a log cabin outside of Seattle, beautiful town called Woodway.
- Gotta go live in a a fucking log cabin working on his shit.
- And that is it, in two days we from scratch build a log cabin doghouse for Smuto.
- Then we had to flip in, go all the way back to the log cabin, which was so long, but whatever, we did it.
- I couldn't make the movie unless that house was the exact right kind of roomy log cabin had to be on a lake and it had to be in a place that felt like Maine.
Examples
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"Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Illinois."
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We rented this log cabin and all my best friends from grade school, junior high high school were coming to this particular event.
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You know, you got your log cabin, you got your apple trees outside.
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Because you promised to build a log cabin on a lake.
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Nice place for a log cabin.
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We should think about buying something up here, like some log cabin in the woods near a lake.
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I'm going to build a log cabin on it.
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If I could live in a log cabin overlooking a lake, I would be in heaven.
Blog text (9) -
Early settlers built log cabins, relying on the thick logs to serve as insulation from the cold.
Academic text (2018) -
There's a log-cabin-style general store and a restaurant-bar called the Starlight Theatre.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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A small simple wooden house in the countryside or woods
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A small simple building where people live or stay
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A small house in the countryside, usually with one floor
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4.5
A small house or cabin in the countryside where people stay while hunting
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A small simple wooden house in the countryside
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'log' (a cut section of a tree trunk) with 'cabin' (a small wooden house); together they denote a small house constructed from logs. This straightforward compound follows regular English noun‑noun composition and is cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Log cabin comes from the simple picture of building a small house from whole trees. Early settlers stacked logs to make the walls of a cabin, so the phrase now means 'a small house made from logs', often in the countryside.