hut
UK/hʌt/
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Australia/hɐt/
hut noun: a small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
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Noun (1)
hut (plural huts)
- A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut
- And in his Hut, when hee to rest doth take him,
Hee sleeps, till Drums or deadlie Pellets wake him.1625, Nicholas Breton, “An Untrained Souldiour”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: Edward Raban, page 31
- A small wooden shed.
- a groundsman’s hut
- A small stack of grain.
Verb
hut (third-person singular simple present huts, present participle hutting, simple past and past participle hutted)
- To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
- to hut troops in winter quarters
- […] commonly the Captaines, after their souldiers are hutted, build Hutts in the place, where their tents stood,1631, Samuel Marolois, translated by Henry Hexham, The Art of Fortification, Amsterdam: John Johnson, Part 2, Figure 124 & 125
- To take shelter in a hut.
- Seven boatfuls of Dutch prisoners have been taken to Chelsea College, where they are to hut under the walls.1653, Newsletter sent from London to Edward Nicholas dated 17 June, 1653, in William Dunn Macray (ed.), Calendar of the Clarendon State Papers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869, Volume 2, p. 219
- He removed with the troops, on the 19th, to Valley-forge, where they hutted, about sixteen miles from Philadelphia.1778, William Gordon, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America, London, Volume 3, Letter 1, p. 11
- To stack (sheaves of grain).
- The method of endeavouring to save corn in bad harvests, by hutting it in the field, is often practised in the north and west of Scotland,1796, James Donaldson, Modern Agriculture; or, The Present State of Husbandry in Great Britain, volume 2, Edinburgh, page 417
Interjection
- Called by the quarterback to prepare the team for a play.
Noun (2) capitalized: HUT
HUT (plural HUTs)
- Acronym of home/household using television.
hut meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hut in Hindi
- small wooden shed
- झोंपड़ा jhõpṛā, झोंपड़ी jhõpṛī, झोपड़ी jhopṛī, झोपड़ा jhopṛā, कुटी kuṭī, कुटिया kuṭiyā
hut in Tamil
- primitive dwelling
- குடிசை kuṭicai
- small wooden shed
- குடில் kuṭil, குடிசை kuṭicai
hut in Marathi
- primitive dwelling
- झोपडी jhopḍī
- small wooden shed
- झोपडी jhopḍī
hut in Urdu
- small wooden shed
- جھون٘پْڑا jhõpṛā, جھون٘پْڑی jhõpṛī, کُٹِیا kuṭiyā, کُلْبَہ kulba
More languagesFewer languages
- hut in Bengali
- কুঁড়েঘর, ঝুপড়ি
- hut in Telugu
- గుడిసె, గుడిసెకు, గుడిసెకి
- hut in Malayalam
- കുടിൽ kuṭil
- hut in Kannada
- ಗುಡಿಸಲು, ಗುಡಿಸೆ, ಗುಡಿಸಿಲು
- hut in Punjabi
- ਝੌਂਪਡ਼ੀ, ਝੌਂਪਡੀ
- hut in Gujarati
- ઝૂંપડી, ઝૂંપડું
- hut in Odia
- ଝୁପଡ଼ି, ଝୁମ୍ପୁଡ଼ି
- hut in Sanskrit
- कुटी kuṭī
- hut in Assamese
- জুপুৰি zupuri
- hut in Nepali
- झुपडी, झोपडी
- hut in Tagalog
- dampa
- hut in Arabic
- كُوخ kūḵ, تَخْشِيبَة taḵšība
- hut in Malay
- pondok
- hut in Indonesian
- gubuk
- hut in Thai
- กระต๊อบ grà-dtɔ́p, กระท่อม grà-tɔ̂m, ตูบ dtùup
- hut in Vietnamese
- chòi
- hut in Myanmar
- တဲ tai:
Examples of hut in a sentence
- […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published...
- There was an oil lamp in all the four huts on Okonkwo’s compound, and each hut seen from the others looked like a soft eye of yellow half-light set in the solid massiveness of night.1958 June 17, Chinua Achebe, chapter 11, in Things Fall Apart, New York, N.Y.: Astor-Honor, published 1959, →OCLC, part 1, page 99:
- […] the scite of the New Town, where divisions of the 17th and 20th light dragoons had hutted themselves.1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 6, p. 200:
- His troops, hutted among the heights of Morristown, were half fed, half clothed, and inferior in number to the garrison of New York.1850, Washington Irving, chapter 56, in The Life of Washington, volume 2, New York: John W. Lovell, page 443:
Forms of hut
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | huts |
| plural | HUTs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | huts |
| present participle | hutting |
| past participle | hutted |
| past | hutted |
Origin of hut
From Middle English *hutte, hotte, from both Old English hōd and Old English hȳdan (“to hide”) and influenced by Anglo-Norman hute or hutte, from Middle French hutte, from Old French hute (“hut”), hute (“cottage”), from Old High German hutta (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *hudjǭ, *hudjō (“hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewt- (“to deck; cover; covering; skin”). Cognate with German Hütte (“hut”), Dutch hut (“hut”), West Frisian hutte (“hut”), Saterland Frisian Hutte (“hut”), Danish hytte (“hut”), Norwegian Bokmål hytte (“hut”), Swedish hydda (“hut”). Related to hide.
A short, sharp sound of command. Compare hey, hup, etc.
Words formed from hut
Phrases with hut
Words that rhyme with hut
Questions about hut
- What does hut mean?
- Hut means a small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
- What is hut in Hindi?
- Hut in Hindi is झोंपड़ा (jhõpṛā), झोंपड़ी (jhõpṛī), झोपड़ी (jhopṛī). See Hut meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hut in a sentence?
- […] I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men’s and women’s faces wos like,
- What part of speech is hut?
- Hut can be a noun, a verb or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce hut?
- Hut is pronounced /hʌt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hut?
- The plural of hut is huts.
Words near hut in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hut (page history and authors); HUT (page history and authors); hut (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hut (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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