What's the difference between "hut", "cabin" and "cottage"
Native speaker’s answer
Rebecca
"Cottage" and "cabin" are often used interchangeably in American English, although a "cottage" would most likely be located at a lake while a "cabin" is often a more remote location. If you used either word, it wouldn’t be unnatural. However it must be noted that in some case, like in the UK for example, a cabin would be considered to be a roughly made house with few rooms, somewhere remote. In the UK the word "cottage" would rarely be interchanged with "cabin", because a "cottage" is usually just a small house. It may carry the nuance meaning of being an old or old-fashioned building. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location. The phrase "hut" is used to refer to a a small, simple shelter or dwelling, which may be made out of lots of easily found local materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, hides, fabric, or mud using techniques passed down through the generations. Ex: My family has a holiday cabin in the wood. Ex: My grandmother lives in a small cottage in the a tiny village. Ex: They had to build a hut to escape the snowstorm.
