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hutment

noun

ˈhət-mənt

Definition of hutment

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

Before 1930, the trail thrived with free campgrounds, travel bureaus, and publications, but the advent of the route numbering system, created by the state of Wisconsin in 1918, caused named roads to fade into obscurity.

— Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Farther south, the rising Jemez River made campgrounds and fishing sites inaccessible.

— Christopher Weber, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of campground

Noun

These included updating the warming hut and clubhouse and adding a mountain bike park.

— Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
The former taxi driver had been arrested three years earlier after police unearthed a mass grave in a forest ‌near the Indian Ocean town of Malindi, where his followers had been living in mud huts.

— Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of hut

Noun

As for those who consider a night beneath the stars a perfectly good vacation plan, this edit is full of fun finds for life around the campsite.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Nov. 2026
The park’s campground has 60 spacious, wooded campsites with water, electrical hook-ups, a fire ring and a picnic table.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of campsite

Noun

The church investigated the first incident in 2005 but did not report it to law enforcement when the victims couldn’t positively identify the perpetrator, and the man returned for the 2006 camp.

— John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 4 Nov. 2026
Overall, both Barrera and Shaw fit squarely within their ideological camps.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of camp

Noun

The storm made landfall Friday near Destin, Florida, a Gulf Coast area known for powdery white-sand beaches and dotted with vacation homes, waterfront bars, and seafood shacks.

— Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026
The low-lying coastal area is known for its powdery white sand beaches dotted with vacation homes, waterfront bars and seafood shacks.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of shack

Noun

Jessie and Gerald Burlingame rent a cabin in Alabama for a sexy weekend, things go very awry.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
The lower deck also features an owner’s suite with private access to the aft deck and can also be outfitted with two or three guest cabins, plus the crew quarters.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2026

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