hut

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noun

1
: an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack
2
: a simple shelter from the elements
hut verb
used to mark a marching cadence

Examples of hut in a Sentence

Noun smoke rose from a fisherman's hut on the shore of the lake
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Yoga sessions will take place in the old chapel or in a yurt; room options range from the main house to more rustic shepherds’ huts and cabins in the grounds. Emma Love, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2024 Passersby can make a pit stop at the restaurant’s beer hut. Liz Schubauer, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024 Open since 2022, this 250-acre area features two ski lifts, a warming hut crafted from beetle kill pine, 17 green and blue groomers with names like Serenity and Tranquility, plus plenty of ungroomed terrain to explore. Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2024 Each private hut gives views over the endless ocean and, as darkness falls, you are lulled into a hypnotic state just by watching the waves gently folding into each other in the half-light. Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 On Saturdays at a backcountry warming hut used by snowmobilers, avalanche educators give basic rescue lessons including how to use avalanche beacons — transmitters that send a signal rescuers can use to find victims. Matthew Brown, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024 But Zvi Sukkot, a 33-year-old Israeli settler from Yitzhar, had chosen to erect a sukkah, the festive temporary hut traditionally built during the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot. Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024 The main change this year is to the warming tent situation: Rather than the constellation of warming huts and chilly stages of years past, the Winter Carnival is building Hamernick’s Entertainment Chalet at Rice Park, a massive heated tent that’ll be the carnival’s unofficial outdoor-ish HQ. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024 Then again, there’s nothing quite like the Art Shanty Projects, in which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats annually recreate traditional ice fishing huts, called shanties, in their own eccentric style on a frozen lake in Minneapolis. Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

French hutte, from Old French hute, from Old High German hutta hut; probably akin to Old English hȳd skin, hide

Interjection

probably alteration of hep entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

1655, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Interjection

1948, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hut was in 1655

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Cite this Entry

“Hut.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hut. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

hut

noun
ˈhət
: a small and often temporary dwelling or shelter : shack

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