hut Definition
hut (hut)
noun
a little house or cabin of the plainest or crudest kind
Etymology: Fr hutte < MHG hütte < OHG hutta: for IE base see hide
transitive verb, intransitive verb hut′·ted, hut′·ting
to shelter or be sheltered in or as in a hut or huts
hut Synonyms
hut
n.
hut Usage Examples
Converse of object
- thatch: They entered a village of thatched huts built in a circle around a small clearing.
- corrugate: This small band turned an ugly corrugated iron hut into a thing of consummate beauty.
- erect: Gore Farm Hospital site layout, 1893. © Peter Higginbotham The Lower Hospital The plan above shows the eight temporary huts erected in 1887.
Preposition: on
stilt: Each night we slept with the villagers, in wooden huts on stilts, sharing mats on the floor.
Adjective modifier
- CIC: After a quick cuppa at the CIC hut we scrambled up to the bottom of the first pitch.
- wooden: Note the small wooden hut attached to the cabin on the right hand side.
- makeshift: As of early 2003, 135,000 internally displaced persons live in tented camps, makeshift huts, uncompleted buildings and railroad wagons.
- ramshackle: So when Bruce builds a ramshackle hut near her, she is not best pleased.
- alpine: Well spend the majority of our time trekking between alpine huts, enjoying some of the Balkans best mountain scenery.
Modifies a noun
- custodian: This is normally a matter for hut custodians to deal with.
- circle: Hut Circle A hut circle is the archeological remains of a form of building used in prehistory.
Noun used with modifier
- scout: Twenty-five years ago, the Hounslow temple was nothing more than a couple of scout huts on a piece of waste ground.
- mud: Its coast is lined by small hamlets of mud huts with indigenous women in bowler hats farming their land.
- nissen: The choice of a simple building form, which has echoes of the standard nissen hut, makes an appropriate and admirable space.
- beehive: The cluster of beehive huts is reached up slate steps 700 feet above sea level.
- bamboo: Sitting outside bamboo huts on the side of the track were human beings begging even from us, or at least trying to.
- lineside: The lineside hut has been repaired after an act of vandalism.
Possessives
- watchman: One behind a watchman's hut at the end of Lawrence Street, a man who lodged in Lawrence Street, was killed.
- shepherd: A shepherd's hut made £ 6. There were 27 horses.
- fisherman: My place to buy fish is Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast, where there are ad hoc fisherman's huts along the front.
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