Meanings
nounbathing hut (plural bathing huts)
plural bathing huts
- A hut, usually located on a beachfront, for the purpose of changing into or out of a bathing suit in privacy.
When half the children were dressed again, some peasant women in their Sunday best, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-hut and stopped shyly.
1877, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: The Russian Messenger, page 286Synonyms: beach hut
- A small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind, a place for changing into and out of swimming costumes and for the safe storing of some personal belongings.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA hut, usually located on a beachfront, for the purpose of changing into or out of a bathing suit in privacy.
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Translations
Finnish uimakoppi, uimakoppi
- uimakoppihut for changing clothes on a beach
- uimakoppismall house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind
- rantamajasmall house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind
Russian каби́на/каби́нка для переодева́ния, переодева́лка
- каби́на/каби́нка для переодева́ния (kabína/kabínka dlja pereodevánija)hut for changing clothes on a beach
- переодева́лка (pereodeválka)hut for changing clothes on a beach
- раздева́лка (razdeválka)hut for changing clothes on a beach
- пля́жная каби́нка (pljážnaja kabínka)small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind
- пля́жный до́мик (pljážnyj dómik)small house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind
Swedish badhytt, badhytt
- badhytthut for changing clothes on a beach
- badhyttsmall house on the beach, a shelter from the sun or wind
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