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Definition of hovel in English: hovelnoun ˈhɒv(ə)l 1A small squalid or simply constructed dwelling. people were living in rat-infested hovels Example sentencesExamples - Geraldo has lived in tents, alone in the African bush, in hovels, and in quite decent apartments.
- Oh, believe me, Dr Hawkins, I have seen the state of some of their homes, or should I call them hovels?
- The wretch simply ran madly from his hovel and took chase through his so-called garden.
- An American charity has launched the world's first slum theme park, complete with around 30 ramshackle hovels, a communal outdoor toilet and door-to-door detritus.
- He lived in a hovel of an apartment, sold illegal software, hacked systems, and nursed a feeling of unease.
- It's just a shame that the house is such a hovel at the moment.
- I saw it all around - the shacks, hovels, families collecting cow dung in the fields or breaking rocks for a new road.
- Grungy bands of humans huddle around rubbish fires in hovels constructed of old tires and scrap metal.
- The burned Negro quarter in Tulsa was described as ‘a mile-square of shacks, huts, and hovels.’
- Affluent housing overlooks the older hovels of Mexico City.
- Although Uncle Roger lives in a small ramshackle cottage that looks more like a rat-infested hovel, Colin believes the man is a miser, and is sure there's money that has been stashed away.
- So by now she had twenty of these inbred hell hounds running amuck in her stinking hovel of a home.
- For these adorn the once-so-humble hovel of a petrol bunk.
- It is quite a change from the glamorous Vegas lifestyle this living in a hovel stuff.
- There was a brand new television in the middle of their tiny hovel they called home.
- Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
- She was waiting this evening for a few more men to notice her before she would leave the fragrant beauty of the bougainvillea above her for the backstreet hovel she called home.
- What crazy devil would be mad enough to pay £30,000 to rent some nasty, rat-infested hovel?
- He finally made his home in an abandoned hovel adjoining a cottage.
- The homes, or rather hovels, that they lived in would not now be considered fit for pigs.
- 1.1archaic An open shed or outhouse, used for sheltering cattle or storing grain or tools.
Example sentencesExamples - The village became dirtier as they moved away from the castle: shops and smithies gave way to hovels and pig pens.
- After the prayers, Hamad Qadduri stood in his auto parts store, a dusty hovel off a muddy street.
- Nearly the entire 200 kilometre stretch of road was lined with the epitome of mediocrity; a mess of atrocious looking utility hovels, sheds, shops and repair facilities.
- Kent tries to persuade him to shelter in a hovel, and they go off to look for it.
Synonyms shack, slum, shanty, hut, shed, cabin informal dump, hole Scottish bothy
2historical A conical building enclosing a kiln. Example sentencesExamples - These photos were taken today, and show progress on excavating the centre of the kiln, and also exposing the rest of the outer hovel wall.
- The HOVEL acts as a chimney; taking away the smoke, creating draught and protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. Definition of hovel in US English: hovelnoun 1A small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling. people were living in rat-infested hovels Example sentencesExamples - So by now she had twenty of these inbred hell hounds running amuck in her stinking hovel of a home.
- I saw it all around - the shacks, hovels, families collecting cow dung in the fields or breaking rocks for a new road.
- The burned Negro quarter in Tulsa was described as ‘a mile-square of shacks, huts, and hovels.’
- She was waiting this evening for a few more men to notice her before she would leave the fragrant beauty of the bougainvillea above her for the backstreet hovel she called home.
- He lived in a hovel of an apartment, sold illegal software, hacked systems, and nursed a feeling of unease.
- Despite their squalid hovels and ragged clothes, Arthur Young reported that the poor of Ireland were ‘as athletic in their form, as robust, and as capable of enduring labour as any upon earth’.
- Grungy bands of humans huddle around rubbish fires in hovels constructed of old tires and scrap metal.
- An American charity has launched the world's first slum theme park, complete with around 30 ramshackle hovels, a communal outdoor toilet and door-to-door detritus.
- The homes, or rather hovels, that they lived in would not now be considered fit for pigs.
- The wretch simply ran madly from his hovel and took chase through his so-called garden.
- Although Uncle Roger lives in a small ramshackle cottage that looks more like a rat-infested hovel, Colin believes the man is a miser, and is sure there's money that has been stashed away.
- There was a brand new television in the middle of their tiny hovel they called home.
- Geraldo has lived in tents, alone in the African bush, in hovels, and in quite decent apartments.
- Oh, believe me, Dr Hawkins, I have seen the state of some of their homes, or should I call them hovels?
- What crazy devil would be mad enough to pay £30,000 to rent some nasty, rat-infested hovel?
- Affluent housing overlooks the older hovels of Mexico City.
- He finally made his home in an abandoned hovel adjoining a cottage.
- It's just a shame that the house is such a hovel at the moment.
- For these adorn the once-so-humble hovel of a petrol bunk.
- It is quite a change from the glamorous Vegas lifestyle this living in a hovel stuff.
- 1.1archaic An open shed or outbuilding, used for sheltering cattle or storing grain or tools.
Example sentencesExamples - After the prayers, Hamad Qadduri stood in his auto parts store, a dusty hovel off a muddy street.
- Kent tries to persuade him to shelter in a hovel, and they go off to look for it.
- The village became dirtier as they moved away from the castle: shops and smithies gave way to hovels and pig pens.
- Nearly the entire 200 kilometre stretch of road was lined with the epitome of mediocrity; a mess of atrocious looking utility hovels, sheds, shops and repair facilities.
Synonyms shack, slum, shanty, hut, shed, cabin
2historical A conical building enclosing a kiln. Example sentencesExamples - These photos were taken today, and show progress on excavating the centre of the kiln, and also exposing the rest of the outer hovel wall.
- The HOVEL acts as a chimney; taking away the smoke, creating draught and protecting the oven inside from the weather and uneven draughts.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. |