hut
noun/hʌt/
/hʌt/
- a small, simply built house or shelter
- You can rent a beach hut for about $10 a night.
- The wooden hut stood on a lonely stretch of beach.
- Traditional mud huts gave way to concrete houses.
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesb2, Buildingsb2- the thatched huts of local villagers
- The refugees spent the winter in tents or makeshift huts.
- The scheme housed children in large numbers in prefabricated huts.
- They live in ramshackle huts constructed of discarded building materials.
- huts built with mud bricks
- The area is well served by a network of mountain huts and refuges.
- The builders were collecting their wages from the site hut (= temporary office on a building site).
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- makeshift
- bamboo
- mud
- …
- build
- make
- in a/the hut
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘temporary wooden shelter for troops’): from French hutte, from Middle High German hütte.Definitions on the go
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