field hut
- noun
:
cabaña de campaña
- The team used a field hut as a base for their operations while stationed in the remote area.
Examples
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The soldiers set up their field hut to rest after a long day of training in the wilderness.
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During the mission, they found a field hut that provided some shelter from the harsh weather.
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Condominas (1970:17) states that Lao in a pioneer community construct a temple as soon as they have cleared sufficient fields and decided to replace their field huts with permanent houses.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small simple building where people live or stay
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9.2
A small simple shelter where soldiers sleep
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3.9
A large shelter made of heavy cloth used outdoors by soldiers or campers
A small temporary building where soldiers sleep and live during training or war
A small, simple shelter where people live, often temporary
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small, temporary shelter used by military personnel in the field' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'field' (the ground where operations occur) with 'hut' (a simple shelter), so the overall sense is simply a hut located in the field. This noun–noun composition is a common and predictable pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Field hut comes from the simple picture of a small hut built out in a field to be a 'shelter' for people or equipment. Because soldiers often used these plain, 'temporary' huts during training or operations, field hut now means a small, temporary shelter used by troops in the field.