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Definition: Hut |
HutNoun1. Temporary military shelter. 2. Small crude shelter used as a dwelling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a hut, denotes indifferent success. To dream that you are sleeping in a hut, denotes ill health and dissatisfaction. To see a hut in a green pasture, denotes prosperity, but fluctuating happiness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HUT | English | Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HutSynonyms: army hut (n), field hut (n), hovel (n), hutch (n), shack (n), shanty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hut |
| English words defined with "hut": Boothy, burn down, burn up ♦ go up ♦ igloo, iglu ♦ Nissen hut ♦ Quonset hut ♦ Rancho ♦ Sheeling, Shieling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hut": Bothie System ♦ CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA ♦ Finger-stall ♦ Hutkin ♦ Mazeppa, Misers ♦ Shingebis ♦ touchpad ♦ U'na ♦ Wigwam'. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hut": tavern. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Hut" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (cabin, cottage, hut, shack), German (cap, guard, hat, keeping, protection), Turkmen (exact, just). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hut! What's the problem (Taps; writing credit: Devery Freeman; Robert Mark Kamen) And then I'll be staying on a tiny island and I don't know if I'll be living in a hut, or what (Joe Versus the Volcano; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley) Many days no business comes to my hut. Jimmy has fear (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) Hey man, you missed your shift at the Photo Hut! You better have a damn good excuse (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Lyrics | Hut, hut, three, four ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Wenn du küßt! Hut ab (1971) De Kleine hut (1969) Ein Florentiner Hut (1967) Der Hut oder Mondo Novo (1966) The Little Hut (1957) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Peard Bay Camp - Arctic Field Party Note top of hut left of center Arctic Field Party under Hubert A. Paton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | A grass thatch hut. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Muskrat hut. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | A muskrat hut in a middle Patuxent river marsh. Observed at a very low tide. Early in the year so marsh grasses aren't too tall yet. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | Home sweet quanset hut - horizontally blowing snow streaks across the front door. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Vince's Cross at Hut Point Peninsula, McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Named for George Vince, a member of the Scott Discovery Expedition, who drowned nearby. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Traditional community meeting hut. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | Interior of community meeting hut showing construction methods. Credit: Small World. |
![]() | At Texas Tech University, research assistants Anna Johnson and Harold Rachuonyo observe the behavior of a sow and her litter inside a farrowing hut. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | Historic cook hut possibly chineseLower Salmon RiverCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Karen Wattenmaker. | |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hut" by Brian Dimarucot Commentary: "Beach hut.." | "Weird costume" by Margus Kyttä Commentary: "Weird costumes at Dipoli party in HUT." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Kamo No Chomei | Only in a hut built for the moment can one live without fears. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The child went into the hut. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The mason who finishes the cornice of the palace returns at night perchance to a hut not so good as a wigwam |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | GIB originally owned the Pizza Hut master franchise. (references) | |
Tricon owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC. Tricon Belgium is headquartered in Antwerp. (references) | ||
With over 73 restaurants, Pizza Hut controls twenty percent of the pizza market in Belgium. (references) | ||
Economic History | Trinidad | They include Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, McDonalds, and Subway Sandwiches. (references) |
Slovak Rep | U.S. franchises in Slovakia are still limited but already include McDonalds and Pizza Hut. (references) | |
Mauritius | Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizza Hut have been operating for a number of years now as have several South African chains. (references) | |
Travel | Pakistan | Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, TGI Friday and Subway have opened a few outlets in Karachi and Lahore. (references) |
Mauritius | There are a variety of restaurants, including three U.S. franchises (Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and McDonald's). (references) | |
Jamaica | In addition, there are also many U.S. fast food outlets here, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Kenny Roger's Roasters Chicken, Popeyes, Wendy's, Domino's Pizza, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Subway. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "Hut" is used about 1,031 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.7% | 935 | 7,731 |
| Noun (common) | 3.97% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.2% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.45% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.68% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,031 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Czech Republic | Nova Hut a.s. | Japan | Ringer Hut Co., Ltd. |
| USA | Sunglass Hut International | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "hut": alpine dairy hut ♦ army hut ♦ bathing hut ♦ beach hut ♦ Booby hut ♦ canvas hut ♦ field hut ♦ hut of branches ♦ log hut ♦ mountain hut ♦ mud hut ♦ Nissen hut ♦ quonset hut ♦ small hut ♦ South East Asia hut ♦ watchman's hut. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hut": hut-books, hut-dwelling, hut-like, hut-to-hut. | |
Ending with "hut": beach-hut, hut-to-hut, line-hut, mill-hut, nissen-hut, pig-hut, winding-hut. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pizza hut | 10,691 | hurricane hut | 49 |
sun glasses hut | 1,849 | play hut | 43 |
hut jizz | 1,605 | pizza hut franchise | 41 |
pizza hut coupon | 504 | grass hut | 40 |
tiki hut | 402 | hut online pizza | 38 |
hut | 279 | hofs hut | 37 |
pizza hut.com | 225 | hut pizza recipe | 36 |
hut ladle rat rotten | 174 | build hut tiki | 35 |
finger hut | 171 | pizza hut pizza | 31 |
hut menu pizza | 127 | coupon glasses hut sun | 30 |
smut hut | 110 | hut summit | 29 |
quonset hut | 104 | african hut | 27 |
jabba the hut | 89 | fat hut | 26 |
canada hut pizza | 76 | hula hut | 26 |
hut location pizza | 62 | quanset hut | 26 |
delivery hut pizza | 60 | bikini hut | 25 |
sun glass hut | 59 | hut java | 24 |
beach hut | 56 | hut nutrition pizza | 24 |
com hut pizza | 54 | hut plan tiki | 23 |
bamboo hut | 50 | hawaii hut pizza | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtëpizë (crib, Lodge), kolibe (hovel, kennel, sconce), kasolle (bothy, cabin, cot, sconce, shack, shanty, shelter), bun, barakë (barrack, booth, shanty, shelter, small hut). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوخ (cabin, camp, chalet, cot, cottage, crib, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), كشك (booth, box, kiosk, shack, stall), سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, residence, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), بيت متداع. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хижа (box, cabin, hovel, rest house, shanty), колиба (bothy, cabin, cot, crib, hovel, kennel, shack, shanty, wickiup), временна постройка, настанявам в бараки, живея в бараки, барака (hutch, shack, shed). (various references) | |
Chinese | 茅舍 (cottage), 庵 (Buddhist convent, small Buddhist temple), 小屋, 廬 , 廑 (careful), 寮 (fellow-official, Laos). (various references) | |
Czech | vojenský barák, chatrè (cabin, hovel, shack, shanty), chata (cabin, loghouse, shack, summer cottage), chýše, bouda (booth, cabin, hoax, hutch, stall). (various references) | |
Danish | hytte (cabin, shack). (various references) | |
Dutch | stulp (cabin, shack), hut (cabin, cottage, shack). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kabano (cabin, shack). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hola (cabin, cave, cavern, cavity, den, shack), smátta (cabin, cottage, shack). (various references) | |
Farsi | کلبه (Cabana, Cabin, Cottage, Hovel, Hull, Lodge, Shack, Shanty), کاشانه (Shack), الونک (Shed), درکلبه جادادن . (various references) | |
Finnish | mökki (cabin, cottage, shack). (various references) | |
French | hutte, cabane (hutch). (various references) | |
Frisian | hutte (cabin, shack), klinte (cabin, shack). (various references) | |
German | Hütte (barn, booth, cabin, cot, cottage, hovel, iron and steel works, Lodge, poop, shack, shanty, shed, stand, tabernacle). (various references) | |
Greek | καλύβα (cabin, cottage, shack, shed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ביתן (cabin, kiosk, pavilion, shack, ward), בקתה (cottage, shack, shanty, shed), צריף (bungalow, shack, shed), סוך (covert, thicket), סוכה (booth, pavilion, succah, tabernacle, thatch). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kunyhó (bothy, cabin, caboose, cottage, hootch, hovel, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang), bódé (booth, hootch, pitch, stand). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pondok (cabin, cot, cottage, hostel, hovel, lodge), gubuk (cottage), barak (barracks, quarantine quarters, shed). (various references) | |
Italian | capanna (booth, cabana, cabin, cot, hutch, shack). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 舎 (dance, dancing, house, inn, mansion), ハッカー症候群 (hack, hacker syndrome, hacking, happy, happy ending, happy-coat, hash, hat, hatch, hatchback, hustle), ヒドロムシ類 (CHI, close call, fuse, fuse cock, HE, hearing, heuristic, Hewlett, Hewlett Packard, Hilbert, hill, hill climb, hillbilly music, Himalaya, Houston, HP, HR, human, human assessment, human document, human ecology, human engineering, human interest, human interface, human relations, humanism, humanist, humanistic, humanity, humanization, humanlike, humanoid, hydrozoan, hypochondria, interview, listening comprehension, near miss, public hearing), 伏屋 (humble cottage), 伏せ屋 (humble cottage), 小屋 (animal pen, cabin, shed), 小屋 (cabin, pen, shed), 仮小屋 (booth, shack, shed). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハット (hat), ヒュッテ , しゃ (borrowing, copy, describe, duplicate, gauze, house, inn, mansion, now, photograph, picture, reproduce, then, trace, transcribe, well), ふせや (humble cottage), せき (barrier, cough, dam, gate, house, inn, mansion, one's domicile, one's family register, product, seat, sluice), かりごや (booth, hunting lodge, shack, shed), こや (cabin, pen, shed). (various references) | |
Korean | 오두막 (Cabin, Cabins). (various references) | |
Manx | bwaane (booth, cabin, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, kiosk, outhouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, stall, stand). (various references) | |
Maya | haakal. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hytte (cabin, cottage, lodge, shack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uthay.(various references) | |
Polish | chata (cabin, shack). (various references) | |
Portuguese | cabana (bothy, cabana, cabin, cot, cottage, crib, hangar, hovel, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), choupana (barrack, bothy, cabin, cot, crib, hole, hovel, lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references) | |
Romanian | colibã (booth, hovel, humpy, hutch, Lodge, sconce, shack, shanty), cocioabã (hole, hovel, kennel, shanty, sty), cabanå (cabin, shack), cabanã (box, chalet, cot, hospice, hovel, shed), bordei (booth, cabin, cottage, hovel, kennel), baracã (barrack, booth, cabin, penthouse, shanty, shed). (various references) | |
Russian | хижина (cabin, crib, humpy, shack, wickiup). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgàlan (stage or scaffold), bothan (bothy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pojata (hayloft), koliba (bothy, cottage, shack, shieling), daščara (barrack), baraka (barrack, log hut, shack). (various references) | |
Spanish | cabana (cabin, shack), choza (hovel, hutch, shack). (various references) | |
Swahili | kibanda (cabin, shack). (various references) | |
Swedish | hydda (cabin, cottage, crib, hutch, Lodge, shack, shanty), nav (hub, nave), kyffe (den, dump, hole, hovel, kennel, nest), koja (cabin, crib), backstuga. (various references) | |
Thai | เข้าพักในกระท่อม, ที่พักทหาร, กระท่อม (cottage, lodge, shack). (various references) | |
Turkish | kulübe (booth, box, cabin, Cote, cottage, crib, hovel, hutch, kiosk, kiosque, Lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kьme (shack), зatma (tent). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хатина (barrack, cabin, crib, shanty), барак (barrack, cantonment building). (various references) | |
Welsh | cwt (queue, skirt, sty, tail), bwthyn (cabin, cottage), bwth (booth, cot). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gi-sig. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | canaba, casa, casula, casulam, casulis, cella, gurgustium, tabernus. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | capanna. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | barraca. (various references) |
| Middle High German | 1100-1500 | htte, kobe. (various references) |
| Middle Low German | 1100-1500 | kote. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | hutte. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hut": hutch, hutched, hutches, hutching, hutlike, hutment, hutments, huts, hutted, hutting, hutzpa, hutzpah, hutzpahs, hutzpas. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "hut": bhut, cockshut, phut, shut, unshut. (additional references) | |
Words containing "hut": bhuts, chute, chuted, chutes, chuting, chutist, chutists, chutnee, chutnees, chutney, chutneys, chutzpa, chutzpah, chutzpahs, chutzpas, cockshuts, dhuti, dhutis, parachute, parachuted, parachutes, parachutic, parachuting, parachutist, parachutists, phuts, shutdown, shutdowns, shute, shuted, shutes, shuteye, shuteyes, shuting, shutoff, shutoffs, shutout, shutouts, shuts, shutter, shutterbug, shutterbugs, shuttered, shuttering, shutterless, shutters, shutting, shuttle, shuttlecock, shuttlecocked, shuttlecocking. (additional references) | |
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"Hut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bhut, Ghuta, hatt, haupt, hauty, hct, hcu, hett, hewt, hito, Hitt, hitu, hoct, hoht, hota, Hoti, hout, Hpu, hrut, hst, htm, htn, htp, Htu, Htun, htx, hty, hu, hua, huc, huet, huf, huft, hui, Huit, huj, huk, hult, huo, huot, hup, hur, hust, hute, Huth, hutt, hutu, huty, Hutz, Huu, huv, hux, huy, huz, hwu, khutba, nhu, phut, phutt, Uhh, uhl, uht, uhv, whut, yut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hut" (pronounced hu"t) |
| 2 | -u" t | abut, but, butt, cut, glut, gut, jut, mutt, nut, phut, putt, rebut, rut, shut, smut, somewhat, strut, tut, uncut, what. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-t-u" | |
-1 letter: uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bhut, haut, hunt, hurt, huts, phut, ruth, shut, thou, thru, thud, thug, thus, tush. | |
+2 letters: aught, bhuts, butch, chute, couth, cutch, dhuti, dutch, ghaut, haunt, haute, hunts, hurst, hurts, hutch, mouth, musth, mutch, ought, phuts, quoth, routh, ruths, shout, shunt, shute, shuts, south, teuch, teugh, thous, thrum, thuds, thugs, thuja, thumb, thump, thunk, thurl, thuya, touch, tough, truth, tushy, unhat, youth. | |
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