hut
/hʌt
/noun
A small, simple, single-storey house or shelter: a beach hut...
- Corrugated huts house additional families in backyards and the shanty towns overflow with new arrivals.
- They were only able to get accommodation in beach huts at opposite ends of the island but met up every day.
- We walk away from the town and head towards the slopes past the harbour and towards beach huts.
Synonyms
shack, shanty, cabin, log cabin, shelter, shed, lean-to, den, hovel;
Scottish bothy, shieling, shiel;
North American cabana;
Canadian tilt;
South African hok;
Australian gunyah, mia-mia, humpy;
New Zealand whare;
American Indian hogan, wickiup;
in Brazil favela
North American archaic shebang
verb (huts, hutting, hutted) [with object]
Provide with huts: (as adjective hutted) a hutted encampment...
- This year is the 60th anniversary of the end of the second World War, and that gave particular relevance to a holiday visit to Eden Camp, in North Yorkshire, a hutted former prisoner of war camp which serves as a museum of the war.
- As its numbers have grown, the old hutted classrooms have been replaced with new permanent ones and a new library has been added.
- Initially made up of a few cottages and farm buildings, by 1918 the original buildings had become a large hutted camp with 50 officers and 1,100 other ranks.
Derivatives
hut-like
- The hut-like structure with six spacious rooms has been specially set up at the village as a make-shift election office.
- Almost everything can be destroyed if you have enough firepower (though mostly everything consists primarily of small hut-like buildings and some defensive structures).
- The skimmer came to a halt outside one of the hut-like buildings.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'temporary wooden shelter for troops'): from French hutte, from Middle High German hütte.