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as in campground
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins the arriving national guardsmen were forced to live in a hutment until permanent barracks could be constructed

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as in hut
a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees

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Noun
  • Because North Dakota winters can be brutal, keep in mind that while the park itself is open 24/7, some visitor centers, roads, and campgrounds may shut down or operate on reduced hours in snowy months.
    Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In July, trans man Noah Ruiz told Them he was assaulted and arrested at a campground after using a women’s bathroom at the instruction of the camp’s owner.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Its current form—a dream of ultra-luxury now reclaimed by the jungle, having lost out to a community of beach huts—struck me as an apt metaphor for Itacaré.
    David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The hostel also offers access to ice fishing in huts on the Saguenay Fjord, plus an onsite café that regularly features live music.
    Outside, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lodging options vary from winter campsites and rustic cottages, to cozy micro-refuges and larger chalets.
    Outside, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The vehicle incorporates a 15-kW power takeoff for keeping the campsite electrified or for charging batteries.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • If Alt was going to be in the lineup, the Chargers had a chance to piece their front together and potentially contend, even after losing tackle Rashawn Slater for the season because of a training camp knee injury.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In Kakuma, a vast refugee camp near the South Sudan border, starting in spring, our documentary team followed clinicians and families inside the stabilization unit at Clinic 7, where the sickest children come.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • All of us piled into one wooden shack that was built as an outpost.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Alice Mabel Gray, aka Diana of the Dunes, lived by herself in a shack for almost a decade in the early 1900s in the area that is now the national park.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Shockley and Maycock alerted the ship’s crew but alleged the staff did not take steps to remediate the issue in and around their cabin, according to the complaint.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the movie, with these two sexy people sparring for about 10 minutes, only to settle their differences over whiskey before a roaring fire in a snowbound cabin that looks like a vacation hideaway, has an unironic romance-novel baby-it’s-cold-outside vibe of old-school desert-island love.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Hutment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hutment. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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