cabana

/kəˈbænə/

/kəˈbɑnə/

Other forms: cabanas

A cabana is a small, sometimes portable changing room near a swimming pool or beach. You may put your bikini on in a cabana before diving into the cold ocean water.

A traditional cabana is a tent that can be moved from one spot to another on the beach. It's a mobile dressing room, where swimmers can dry off and put their clothes on. You can use the word cabana to describe any poolside changing room or building — it comes from the Spanish cabaña, with its Late Latin root capana, "hut" or "cabin."

Definitions of cabana

1. noun

   a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool
   type of:

   collapsible shelter, tent

   a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)