Quonset hut
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈkwɒn.sɪt hʌt/
- Archaic
:
cabaña Quonset
- Elliott does nothing dramatic; he doesn't clap his hands or snap his fingers; but somehow, magically, he and Joey, without moving or changing position, are back in the Quonset hut.
- half-round metal Quonset hut
- war-era Quonset hut
- an old Quonset hut
And in the center of all this white mounds of white salt is a Quonset Hut.
- And in the center of all this white mounds of white salt is a Quonset Hut.
Examples
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In a Quonset hut behind the welcome center, an astronomer has the sun on TV—the original star of our show.
Fiction book (2002) -
He drove south into the city, past the old, defunct municipal airport, which now seemed just an oversized Quonset hut surrounded by cracked, weedy parking lots.
Fiction book (2002) -
Instead of neighboring rooftops and a view of the city, Joey is looking directly into the interior of a Quonset hut.
Fiction book (1992) -
On the screen, an English officer, Elliott, is sitting cross-legged on the floor of a Quonset hut.
Fiction book (1992) -
The English department, housed in a Quonset hut left over from the war, was treated as a service unit, drilling future farmers in grammar and composition.
Academic text (2012) -
A fellow named Pinsky, whose bunk was near the front of the Quonset hut, stepped out from the back, buttoning his shirt.
Fiction book (1993) -
Just a quarter mile south of my father's house, there's a barroom built from a Quonset hut back in World War II, with gas pumps out front.
Fiction book (1991) -
She saw people moving among the tents and Quonset huts and thought that she could even make out tiny human figures moving about on the big Navy vessel anchored in the bay.
Fiction book (2000) -
Pushed beyond their endurance, other members of the team have simply fled, sneaking out of the oven-like Quonset huts in the middle of the night in order to hitchhike away.
Fiction book (2002) -
The school organize outdoor activities in a large Quonset hut that can accommodate many students.
Synonyms
217
1.0
A small simple building where people live or stay
A small metal building with a curved roof that people use for temporary army housing or storage
A small temporary building where soldiers sleep and live during training or war
A small temporary shelter soldiers use while in the field
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Quonset + hut
The element 'hut' clearly signals a simple shelter, so a learner would infer this is a type of hut, but 'Quonset' is a proper-name label (originating from Quonset Point) and does not transparently convey the specific semicircular corrugated-metal, prefabricated form. Therefore the general category is predictable from the constituents but the defining physical/formal details are not, making the expression partially but not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name Quonset hut comes from Quonset Point, a U.S. Navy base in Rhode Island where these half-round metal buildings were first made during World War II. That's why Quonset hut now means 'a simple, half-round metal building'.