hut

«hut» in Mova's school dictionary: A small, simple building, often made of wood, mud or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hut, huts)

meaning for a pupil

A small, simple building, often made of wood, mud or metal, used for shelter or storage. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons people in the past or in some places today live in huts of mud, straw or wood. In everyday life: «a beach hut», «a garden hut», «a ski hut», «a mountain hut» for walkers. In stories a hut is a poor or lonely home, like a woodcutter's hut.

examples

• The woodcutter lived in a small hut in the forest. tree →
• We sheltered from the rain in a mountain hut. tree →
• Stone Age people built huts from wood and animal skins. tree →
• Our family rents a beach hut in the summer. tree →
• The tools are kept in a hut at the end of the garden. tree →
• The hut had one room and a tiny window. tree →
• Soon the straw hut was ready. tree →

note

Countable: a hut, huts. A hut is smaller and simpler than a house or cabin. Do not confuse with «hat» (something you wear) — only one vowel is different.

In the corpora

• About 15,000 years ago, at Mezhyrich in Ukraine, people built round huts from mammoth jaws, skulls, tusks and long bones.
• At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hut» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.