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
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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

Hut Sentence Examples

  • He built him a little hut for shelter at night and in stormy weather.

  • The dwelling-places of the natives are usually small huts of the simplest constuction, used chiefly as sleeping apartments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves.

  • She gripped his chin firmly and lifted it to what light was in the hut.

  • The hacienda of Antisana, 13,306 ft., and the herdsmen's hut of Cunayaco on Chimborazo, 13,396 ft., are occupied only for a part of the year.

  • Enter the nearby hut to swap for the remote bombs.

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Words Starting With

HHUHUT

Words Ending With

TUTHUT

Unscrambles

hut

Words Starting With H and Ending With T

Starts With H & Ends With TStarts With HU & Ends With TStarts With H & Ends With UT

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With H3 Letter Words Ending With T