英语词汇“hovel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A hovel is a small shed or dwelling, often messy, cramped, and crudely built, such as a shelter in a refugee camp — or possibly your apartment if you have too much stuff and not enough time to clean.

The word hovel was used in the fifteenth century to describe a shed used for animals, and by the seventeenth century the word had taken on its current usage as a way to describe a crude human dwelling — though the connotation of a messiness associated with animals still remains. The word can be used literally to describe something that is a ramshackle shack, but you’ll also hear it used with wry humor to describe a person’s modest living quarters: “Well, I’m off to my hovel to get some sleep.”

WORD FAMILY

hovel: hovelling, hovels

USAGE EXAMPLES

We’ve been into Maggy the Frog’s hovel in the woods, and returned with visions of five future Sunday night viewing scenarios.

The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016)

It hurled stubbles of weed everywhere, lifted kites flown from the roofs of mud hovels.

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007)

To call her home a “wattle hovel” would be generous, since it looks like it might collapse on her family at any moment.

Salon(Oct 23, 2016)

n small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

hut, hutch, shack, shanty

igloo, iglu

an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome

mudhif

a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained

shelter

a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger

单词	hovel
释义	hovel (once / 2216 pages) n A hovel is a small shed or dwelling, often messy, cramped, and crudely built, such as a shelter in a refugee camp — or possibly your apartment if you have too much stuff and not enough time to clean. The word hovel was used in the fifteenth century to describe a shed used for animals, and by the seventeenth century the word had taken on its current usage as a way to describe a crude human dwelling — though the connotation of a messiness associated with animals still remains. The word can be used literally to describe something that is a ramshackle shack, but you’ll also hear it used with wry humor to describe a person’s modest living quarters: “Well, I’m off to my hovel to get some sleep.” WORD FAMILY hovel: hovelling, hovels USAGE EXAMPLES We’ve been into Maggy the Frog’s hovel in the woods, and returned with visions of five future Sunday night viewing scenarios. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) It hurled stubbles of weed everywhere, lifted kites flown from the roofs of mud hovels. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) To call her home a “wattle hovel” would be generous, since it looks like it might collapse on her family at any moment. Salon(Oct 23, 2016) n small crude shelter used as a dwelling Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper hut, hutch, shack, shanty igloo, iglu an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome mudhif a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained shelter a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
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