cabin fever
кабинная лихорадка
Lagerkoller
A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined spaceA condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
Some residents of Alaska suffer from cabin fever when they remain indoors throughout the long, snowy winters.
Lagerkoller
кабинная лихорадкаkabinnaja lixoradka
(obsolete, uncountable)Typhus.
Examples
3 sentencesI have cabin fever.
deMir fällt die Decke auf den Kopf. — enteka
This is snowy weather is giving me cabin fever.
Tom has cabin fever.
Translations
4 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
psychological condition:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
psychological condition:
Origin
In the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite bIn the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite below.
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Word family
4 related wordsDerivedcabin-fevered
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable