hutnoun [ C ]
uk/hʌt/us/hʌt/B1 a small, simple building, usually consisting of one room:
a mountain hut
a row of beach huts
More examples
- We spent the night in a flimsy wooden hut.
- Modern houses have replaced the one-room mud huts with grass roofs that had been home to generations of peasants.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Houses & homes
- A-frame
- almshouse
- apartment
- apartment building
- apt
- flatlet
- flophouse
- garden apartment
- garden flat
- gated community
- public housing
- pueblo
- Quonset hut
- ranch house
- rest home
- villa
- walk-up
- wigwam
- workhouse
- yurt
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