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hutment

hutment

9.3
A group of small temporary houses where soldiers or workers live
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : campamento
  • Durrance and Castleton duck into the hutment.
  • temporary hutments

Examples

  • Being conducted at Sapera Basti with temporary thatched hutments in the background.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Castleton's hutment/burnt-out fortress/desert - day.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I come from the financial capital city of India, which also boasts probably the largest hutment/slum in the world.

    Blog text (7)

  • The men start to run now, seeking shelter in the surrounding hutments.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Durrance moves quickly to the other side of the hutment and climbs out of the window.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Trench (shouting like a madman as he charges towards the hutment).

    Fiction book (2002)

  • These cases were migrant laborers living on the outskirts of native villages in temporary hutments.

    Academic text (2007)

  • They are temporary thatched hutments, covered by tarpaulin, which is partly folded up for ventilation during the daytime.

    Academic text (2007)

  • The soldiers rested in the hutment after a long day of training.

  • During the construction project, workers slept in temporary hutments made from tarps.

Synonyms

campsite
vshutment
46 1.4

A place where people put up tents or park small camper vans and use basic facilities like toilets and showers

is focused on groups of work or military huts not leisure stays
encampment
vshutment
31 6.0

A place where people live temporarily in tents outdoors

is a group of huts used by soldiers or laborers rather than tents
cantonment
vshutment
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A military camp where soldiers live temporarily

is simpler huts grouped for living rather than formal built military housing
barracks
vshutment
2.3

Buildings where soldiers live and sleep

is about loose huts for living rather than solid shared buildings

How Big

village
∞ 1.0
camp
∞ 1.0
hutment
  • Archaic
9.3
hut
217 1.0

Surface Forms

hutment singular
hutments plural

Morphology

hutment = hut (semi-transparent) = hut + ment

The word is built from 'hut' plus '-ment', but the collective sense 'a group or encampment of huts' is not a highly regular modern English formation.

Etymology

Hutment comes from hut plus the ending -ment, which turns words into a 'place' or 'thing', like in settlement. So a hutment is literally a 'place of huts', used for a group of small houses or a camp for soldiers or workers.