Quonset /ˈkwɒnsɪt/ noun[before a noun]1 •(US) A prefabricated building having a roof of corrugated iron and semicircular cross section.They gave her a round white visitor's badge at one of the gates, and she parked in an enormous lot next to a quonset building painted pink and about a hundred yards long. — 1966 formsQuonsets · quonsets