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Synonyms for hut

Grammar : Noun
Spell : huht
Phonetic Transcription : hÊŒt

Top 10 synonyms for hut
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Définition of hut

Origin :
  • 1650s, from French hutte "cottage" (16c.), from Middle High German hütte "cottage, hut," probably from Proto-Germanic *hudjon-, related to the root of Old English hydan "to hide," from PIE *keudh-, from root (s)keu- (see hide (n.1)). Apparently first in English as a military word. Old Saxon hutta, Danish hytte, Swedish hytta, Frisian and Middle Dutch hutte, Dutch hut are from High German.
  • noun tiny, often roughly built, house
Example sentences :
  • Trenches were dug round the hut and tent, so that they must have had rain.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • Finished the hut, pugging it at the ends, and making the roof better.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • You will then see under a great beech-tree the hut of a charcoal-burner.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • So I knew my thought was still good, and I made room for him in the warmth of the hut.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • "It is all there in there," waving her hand towards the hut.
  • Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
  • As he gets older this hut will doubtless grow into a house fit for gentlemen.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • It was a beautiful moonlight night when he reached Hunding's hut.
  • Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
  • Children he had none; and he now occupied a hut, without companion of any sort.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • He was hard at work in putting a thatched roof on a hut which he had built.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • It was Uncle Ben who played the concertina at the door of his hut in the evening.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
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