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Definition of hut
1 : an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack
2 : a simple shelter from the elements
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Examples of hut in a Sentence
smoke rose from a fisherman's hut on the shore of the lake
Recent Examples of hut from the Web
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After a few prayers, she was told she was married and sent to his hut.
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Now only the overgrown ruin of a swimming pool and a hut covered with graffiti remain.
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In the Anne family’s tiny compound, the side-by-side huts of Amadou and his brother Gibbe are still empty, a broken bicycle resting against the mud wall in one.
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The city also plans to spend $5 million to $6 million to build and landscape an ice-skating rink and to buy 44 movable huts for the market.
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As David Kamp outlines in our cover story, the huts were faithfully re-created on the (much more accessible) Dingle Peninsula for The Last Jedi.
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In this brief five-minute look at the game there’s your ship headquarters, surrounded by cerulean ocean waves, an island town full of rocky shoals and beach huts, and a desert ruin beset by a sandstorm.
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Scientists stumbled on the delicate watercolour of a bird in a hut on Cape Adare, a peninsula on the continent's far east side.
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A one-room mud hut in a village no one cared about in the remote mountains of Ethiopia is not where nature goes to be kind.
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Origin and Etymology of hut
French hutte, from Old French hute, from Old High German hutta hut; probably akin to Old English hȳd skin, hide
Origin and Etymology of hut
probably alteration of 1hep
HUT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of hut for English Language Learners
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: a small and simple house or building
HUT Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of hut for Students
: a small roughly made and often temporary dwelling
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