Hut

  

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Hut

Definition: Hut

Hut

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Hut

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Hut

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

HUT

EnglishHopkins Ultraviolet TelescopeN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Hut

Synonyms: army hut (n), field hut (n), hovel (n), hutch (n), shack (n), shanty (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hut

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Hut

English words defined with "hut": Boothy, burn down, burn upgo upigloo, igluNissen hutQuonset hutRanchoSheeling, Shieling. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hut": Bothie SystemCALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLAFinger-stallHutkinMazeppa, MisersShingebistouchpadU'naWigwam'. (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).

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Modern Usage: Hut

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hut

DomainTitle

References

  • Ringer Hut Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Nova Hut a.s.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 100 Hut Walks in the Alps (reference)

  • Colorado 10th Mountain Huts & Trails: The Official Guide to America's Largest Backcountry Ski Hut System, 350 Miles of Trail Connecting with 20 Huts & (reference)

  • Colorado Hut to Hut Vol. 2 (reference)

  • Cries from a Tin Hut (reference)

  • Norton's Hut (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Krushadelic Presents: Hip-Hop Comedy Hut (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hut

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Photo Album: Hut

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & 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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Digital Photo Gallery: Hut
 

"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.

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Familiar Quotations: Hut

AuthorQuotation

Kamo No Chomei

Only in a hut built for the moment can one live without fears.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Hut

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hut

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Hut

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.7%9357,731
Noun (common)3.97%4153,521
Lexical Verb (base form)3.2%3360,273
Noun (proper)1.45%1590,616
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.68%7133,076
                    Total100.00%1,031N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Hut

CountryNameCountryName
Czech Republic

Nova Hut a.s.

Japan

Ringer Hut Co., Ltd.

USA

Sunglass Hut International

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Hut

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hut

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Hut

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), (Buddhist convent, small Buddhist temple), 小屋, , (careful), (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 

  

(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.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hut

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

gi-sig. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

canaba, casa, casula, casulam, casulis, cella, gurgustium, tabernus. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

capanna. (various references)

Spanish900-Modern

barraca. (various references)

Middle High German1100-1500

htte, kobe. (various references)

Middle Low German1100-1500

kote. (various references)

French1500-Modern

hutte. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hut

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Hut"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hut" (pronounced hu"t)
2-u" tabut, 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.

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Anagrams: Hut

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Company Usage
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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