dwelling vs dugout

dugout vs dwelling

dwelling and dugout both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dwelling	Yes	No	No	No
dugout	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dugout is a hyponym of dwelling; that is, dugout is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than dwelling:

dwelling: housing that someone is living in
dugout: 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.

Other hyponyms of dwelling include cliff dwelling, condo, condominium, fixer-upper, fireside, hearth, hermitage, homestead, house, lake dwelling, pile dwelling, indian lodge, lodge, messuage, semi-detached house, vacation home, yurt, dug-out, pit-house, pithouse.

dwelling (noun)	dugout (noun)
housing that someone is living in	a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
	either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
	a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
	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.

Difference between dwelling and dugout

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