Hut Definition

hŭt
huts, hutted, hutting
noun
huts
A little house or cabin of the plainest or crudest kind.
Webster's New World
A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack.
American Heritage
A temporary structure for sheltering troops.
American Heritage

A small wooden shed.

Wiktionary

A primitive dwelling.

Wiktionary
verb
To shelter or take shelter in a hut.
American Heritage
To shelter or be sheltered in or as in a hut or huts.
Webster's New World
(rare, archaic) To put into a hut.
To hut troops in winter quarters.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Hut

Noun

Singular:
hut
Plural:
huts

Origin of Hut

  • From French hutte (“cottage”), from Middle High German hütte (> German Hütte cf. Danish hytte).

    From Wiktionary

  • French hutte of Germanic origin (s)keu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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