hut
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hut
interjection
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Synonyms for hut
Synonyms: Noun
cabin, camp, hooch (or hootch) [slang], hovel, hutch, hutment, shack, shanty
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smoke rose from a fisherman's hut on the shore of the lakeRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Two rows, each with a couple dozen huts and calf pens, were on display for visitors. — Casey Smith, Indianapolis Star, "I took a tour of Fair Oaks Farms. Here's what I saw.," 10 June 2019 The village is surrounded by spear-bearing Africans and huts emblazoned with ANC flags. — Gregory Barber, WIRED, "Inside an All-White Town’s Divisive Experiment With Cryptocurrency," 6 June 2019 Just three small huts remained in Baeza by the mid-1800s. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Supposedly pristine South American forest had been pre-Columbian farmland," 17 July 2018 Look at the situation of house, a hut in a tent colony for refugees. — Haroon Janjua, Fox News, "Ex-refugees struggle with their Afghanistan homecoming," 20 Mar. 2018 Guests can pick up splash-proof reading material right there at the towel hut. — Maria Carter, Country Living, "Waterproof Books Let You Read While You're In the Pool and Bath," 15 Nov. 2016 Two of the hut’s walls are built from doors that swing open to the outside. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "96-square-foot pavilion is the ultimate rustic studio," 6 Dec. 2018 Nineteen-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang had been working as a lamp keeper on a rompong — a floating hut used to catch fish — when strong winds snapped the rope anchoring the vessel and carried him out to sea. — Jameelah Nasheed, Teen Vogue, "Indonesian Teen Aldi Novel Adilang Survived 49 Days at Sea in a Tiny Fishing Raft," 24 Sep. 2018 But as we near a few huts made of branches and draped with mosquito netting, a slender woman in a worn T-shirt and sari totters toward us. — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, "Farmers, tourists, and cattle threaten to wipe out some of the world’s last hunter-gatherers," 17 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hut.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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