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HUT/hʌt/

A hut is a small simple building, often of wood, in a garden, on a farm, or by the sea. Countable: a hut, huts. A beach hut; a garden hut. A house is for living in all year; a tent is cloth you can fold. Not hat (on your head) — different vowel.

Meaning

A small simple building, often of wood, in a garden or by the sea.

Examples

• “We changed our clothes in the beach hut.”
• “The tools are in the hut.”
• “They rented a hut for the week.”

Good to know

a hut (small wooden building). Contrast: house (home), tent (cloth). Mix-up: hat.

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