HUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hut mean? 

• HUT (noun)
  The noun HUT has 2 senses:

1. temporary military shelter

2. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

  Familiarity information: HUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Temporary military shelter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

army hut; field hut; hut

Hypernyms ("hut" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hut"):

Nissen hut; Quonset hut (a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hovel; hut; hutch; shack; shanty

Hypernyms ("hut" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hut"):

igloo; iglu (an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome)

mudhif (a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained)

 Context examples 

The huts, the neater cottages, and stately houses engaged my admiration by turns.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

After his flight he did not dare to approach the hut again for some time, but at last he forced himself to do so in order to obtain the information which he needed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I returned to my hut for the shot-gun, made sure it was loaded, and went down to the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Come into my hut,” said Sir Claude.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I gathered from their signs that someone had urgent need of my medical services, and I followed the chief to one of his huts.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient huts built about my house, where they and their families lived, and prepared me two dishes a-piece.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Looking out from his hut one day he saw three robbers fighting and he called out to them, “God be with you.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The whole place was terraced for taro-patches, fruit trees grew there, and there were eight or ten grass huts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The insecticide was then unleashed in a purpose-built 6,550-square-foot ‘village’ in Burkina Faso, containing huts, plants, and breeding pools, and covered in netting to stop the insects escaping.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)

On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)