shack

1. 1.

   small crude shelter used as a dwelling

   Synonymshovelhuthutchshanty

   Broadershelter

   Narrowerigloomudhif

Other forms of shack

plural

shacks·

past tense

shacked·

present participle

shacking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shack

What does shack mean?

shack means "make one's home in a particular place or community". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shack?

shack has 1 syllable: shack. In IPA it is /ˈʃæk/.

What is another word for shack?

Close synonyms include reside, domicile, domiciliate, trail, hovel. 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 shack a common word?

shack is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.