hut

CEFRB1

/hʌt/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small, simple building, often made of wood or metal.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A small stack of grain.

Examples

  • There is a hut at the back of our house.

  • There is a hut below the bridge.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A small wooden shed.

  2. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.

More examples

In context

  • a thatched hut; a mud hut; a shepherd’s hut

  • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 186, 28 December, 1751, Volume 6, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 108-109, […] love, that extends his dominion wherever humanity can be found, perhaps exerts the same power in the Greenlander’s hut, as in the...

  • a groundsman’s hut

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Origin

noun

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.