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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x1)
- We sheltered from the rain in a mountain hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x2)
- Stone Age people built huts from wood and animal skins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x3)
- Our family rents a beach hut in the summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x4)
- The tools are kept in a hut at the end of the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x5)
- The hut had one room and a tiny window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x6)
- Soon the straw hut was ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/0/)
- [At Mezhyrich in Ukraine, about 15,000 years ago, people built huts from mammoth bones, with jaws stacked in a neat zigzag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hut» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hut/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.