hut
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- noun
- /hʌt/
- Sometime during the night, when moonlight slanted through the hut's little window, a face appeared there.
- mud hut
- live in a hut
- build a hut
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Watch on YouTubeWe learned that they changed the sheets in these huts once per year.
- We learned that they changed the sheets in these huts once per year.
- Baptist porticoes in Mississippi, monk huts in in Kyoto.
- So every year we hire a beach Hut and Mersey Island.
- Go back to my Hut, in my tombow, in my hammock.
- And then very shortly they'll go into a Hut like a grass Hut in the darkness.
- The last thing they wanted was to still live in kind of little huts in the forest.
- An old boy was leaving the, the like mud Hut with some goats.
- And so six months they will stand in their Hut and six months they spent in the forest.
- The school that they had were basically mud huts, right?
Examples
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I built my Hut near the Congo, and it lulled me to sleep.
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The light of morning was sifting into the hut when sleep at last took him.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then he turned out of the hut and down the path toward the mess hall.
Fiction book (1990) -
And that brush hut, me and my brother built it.
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When we sleep in the farm hut, frogs jump on us in the night.
Academic text (2008) -
And the whole Bolivian army is out in front of this little hut.
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By age eleven, he was living alone in a "hut" and toiling as a shepherd.
Academic text (1995) -
Aluta thanks him and returns to her hut to set out the sleeping mats for her family.
Academic text (1991) -
The villagers pour out of their huts, gathering in the middle of town.
Fiction book (1990) -
After a long day of hiking, we finally reached our cozy hut in the woods.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small simple wooden house in the countryside or woods
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3.4
A small house near nature where travelers stay temporarily
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1.8
A small rough shelter made from wood and metal scraps
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6.8
A small rough shelter made from old boards and metal
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7.1
A small simple house that is dirty and not good to live in
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2.5
A small house built from round pieces of wood, often in the woods
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9.2
A small simple shelter where soldiers sleep
A small simple cabin used for guests or camping
A simple wooden house in the country, common in Russia
A small metal building with a curved roof that people use for temporary army housing or storage
A hut with a simple frame covered in branches or grass used for shelter by Native American people
A small, simple shelter where people live, often temporary
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A small metal building with a curved roof that people use for temporary army housing or storage
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Etymology
Hut comes from an old European word, like the German Hütte, which means a small 'shelter' or 'little house'. So a hut today is a small, simple shelter often made from basic materials.