• n.
    ⦿a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.
    lexical concept
  • Dugouts are one of the most ancient types of human housing known to archeologists, and the same methods have evolved into modern ‘earth shelter’ technology.

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:dug-out
  2. enl:dugout
  3. enl:pit-house
  4. enl:pithouse
wn:interlingual indexili:in

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • dug-outdugoutpit-housepithouse
  • dug-outpit-housepithouse