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beach hut

beach hut noun: a small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.

beach hut: a small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into...
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Noun

beach hut (plural beach huts)

  1. (Australia, UK) A small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.
    • Kenneth Anderson's 1940s John Deere Model H could also double as a beach hut or lifeguard stand.2000, Michael Dregni, 101 Uses for an Old Farm Tractor, Voyageur Press, British Columbia, page 29
    • Beach huts, owned or leased, are not habitable but can be used as a shelter and changing room on the beach.2003, Barbara Segall, Jerry Harpur, Gardens by the Sea, page 123

Examples of beach hut in a sentence

  • Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside.2006, Fred Gray, chapter C, in Designing the Seaside: Architecture, Society and Nature, page 176:
  • As you travel further south there is a string of mellow beach huts with Buddhist names such as Shanti and Nirvana, catering for small numbers of hip, adventurous young Israelis.2010, Amelia Thomas, Michael Kohn, Miriam Raphael, Dan Savery Raz, Israel & the Palestinian Territories, Lonely Planet, page 395:
  • But you'll have to wait in line in the morning to reserve a beach hut, and one never gets used to the sad sight of parrots, toucans, and cockatoos squawking in their cages.2011, Darwin Porter, Frommer's Caribbean, page 77:

Forms of beach hut

pluralbeach huts

Questions about beach hut

What does beach hut mean?
Beach hut means a small, single-room building above high-water mark on a beach that is used for changing into swimming clothes, for recreation, or for temporary storage.
How do you use beach hut in a sentence?
Installed in a stark London gallery, Emin's work symbolized the beach hut as icon of the seaside.
What part of speech is beach hut?
Beach hut is a noun.
What is the plural of beach hut?
The plural of beach hut is beach huts.

Words near beach hut in the dictionary

  1. beach heads
  2. beach hopper
  3. beach hoppers
  4. beach house
  5. beach houses
  6. beach hut
  7. beach huts
  8. beach nourishment
  9. beach parties
  10. beach party
  11. beach pea

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