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单词 hut
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Definition of hut in English:

hut

nounPlural huts hʌthət
  • A small, simple, single-storey house or shelter.

    a beach hut
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The area consists of huts and tiny houses made of tin sheets, wood, blocks, and stones.
    • We walk away from the town and head towards the slopes past the harbour and towards beach huts.
    • Among the huts and mud brick buildings, more shelters are springing up.
    • Only later were they housed in flimsy huts where they continue to live today.
    • They were only able to get accommodation in beach huts at opposite ends of the island but met up every day.
    • We live in cities, in towns, and in rural communities, in houses instead of huts and caves.
    • There are no streets, no houses, only huts where people cling to each other and cry.
    • None of the other huts and tree shelters caught fire and no other people were injured in the blaze, police said.
    • The building of shelters and huts encouraged man to live in villages and settlements, and this led to the growth of civilisations.
    • The man was killed in a fire that engulfed a row of beach huts in an eastern Thai resort popular among backpackers.
    • However, it was not difficult to meet people simply by wandering through the bush and chancing upon scattered huts and houses.
    • Inside is a comfortable spot that feels like a cross between a beach hut and a family cottage.
    • Corrugated huts house additional families in backyards and the shanty towns overflow with new arrivals.
    • There are at least four such lanes between clusters of houses and huts.
    • She says more like 35,000 people were there in mud huts and make shift houses.
    • In Bangladesh, a typical village house consists of several huts around a compound.
    • He said another aspect to be improved was the provision of beach huts.
    • That's all changed today said Michael with the introduction of huts and shelters to have tea breaks in.
    • They were all moved to townships - shanty towns of wooden huts built away from any natural resources or shelter.
    • While on the summit the two men took shelter in a hut from a particularly vicious blast of wind and snow.
    Synonyms
    shack, shanty, cabin, log cabin, shelter, shed, lean-to, den, hovel
    Scottish bothy, shieling, shiel
    North American cabana
    Canadian tilt
    South African hok
    Australian gunyah, mia-mia, humpy
    New Zealand whare
    American Indian hogan, wickiup
    in Brazil favela
    North American archaic shebang
verbhuts, hutting, hutted hʌthət
[with object]
  • Provide with huts.

    it will be advisable to hut the troops, for their protection during the cold season
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This year is the 60th anniversary of the end of the second World War, and that gave particular relevance to a holiday visit to Eden Camp, in North Yorkshire, a hutted former prisoner of war camp which serves as a museum of the war.
    • Initially made up of a few cottages and farm buildings, by 1918 the original buildings had become a large hutted camp with 50 officers and 1,100 other ranks.
    • As its numbers have grown, the old hutted classrooms have been replaced with new permanent ones and a new library has been added.

Derivatives

  • hut-like

  • adjective
    • The hut-like structure with six spacious rooms has been specially set up at the village as a make-shift election office.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Almost everything can be destroyed if you have enough firepower (though mostly everything consists primarily of small hut-like buildings and some defensive structures).
      • The skimmer came to a halt outside one of the hut-like buildings.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'temporary wooden shelter for troops'): from French hutte, from Middle High German hütte.

Rhymes

abut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, phut, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut
 
 

Definition of hut in US English:

hut

nounhəthət
  • A small, simple, single-storey house or shelter.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While on the summit the two men took shelter in a hut from a particularly vicious blast of wind and snow.
    • However, it was not difficult to meet people simply by wandering through the bush and chancing upon scattered huts and houses.
    • Inside is a comfortable spot that feels like a cross between a beach hut and a family cottage.
    • The building of shelters and huts encouraged man to live in villages and settlements, and this led to the growth of civilisations.
    • We walk away from the town and head towards the slopes past the harbour and towards beach huts.
    • Corrugated huts house additional families in backyards and the shanty towns overflow with new arrivals.
    • He said another aspect to be improved was the provision of beach huts.
    • The area consists of huts and tiny houses made of tin sheets, wood, blocks, and stones.
    • They were all moved to townships - shanty towns of wooden huts built away from any natural resources or shelter.
    • In Bangladesh, a typical village house consists of several huts around a compound.
    • That's all changed today said Michael with the introduction of huts and shelters to have tea breaks in.
    • Only later were they housed in flimsy huts where they continue to live today.
    • Among the huts and mud brick buildings, more shelters are springing up.
    • The man was killed in a fire that engulfed a row of beach huts in an eastern Thai resort popular among backpackers.
    • We live in cities, in towns, and in rural communities, in houses instead of huts and caves.
    • There are at least four such lanes between clusters of houses and huts.
    • They were only able to get accommodation in beach huts at opposite ends of the island but met up every day.
    • There are no streets, no houses, only huts where people cling to each other and cry.
    • She says more like 35,000 people were there in mud huts and make shift houses.
    • None of the other huts and tree shelters caught fire and no other people were injured in the blaze, police said.
    Synonyms
    shack, shanty, cabin, log cabin, shelter, shed, lean-to, den, hovel
verbhəthət
[with object]
  • Provide with huts.

    it will be advisable to hut the troops, for their protection during the cold season
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Initially made up of a few cottages and farm buildings, by 1918 the original buildings had become a large hutted camp with 50 officers and 1,100 other ranks.
    • As its numbers have grown, the old hutted classrooms have been replaced with new permanent ones and a new library has been added.
    • This year is the 60th anniversary of the end of the second World War, and that gave particular relevance to a holiday visit to Eden Camp, in North Yorkshire, a hutted former prisoner of war camp which serves as a museum of the war.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘temporary wooden shelter for troops’): from French hutte, from Middle High German hütte.

 
 
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