quonset hut

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   a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section

   SynonymsNissen hut

   Broaderhut

Questions about quonset hut

What does quonset hut mean?

quonset hut means "a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section".

What is another word for quonset hut?

Close synonyms include Nissen hut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quonset hut a common word?

quonset hut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.