hovel
pronunciation
How to pronounce hovel in British English:
UK [ˈhɒvl]
How to pronounce hovel in American English:
US [ˈhʌvl]
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- Noun:
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Word Origin
- hovel (n.)
- mid-14c., "roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s. It also sometimes meant "canopied niche for a statue or image" (mid-15c.).
Example
- 1. What 's a hovel in argentina ?
- 2. At that moment , the farmer 's own son came to the door of the family hovel .
- 3. She 's back in the old hovel already .
- 4. You may see a blue masked nursing mother sitting by the dirt hovel on the east part of the village .
- 5. Kenobi 's spartan hovel was actually a treasure trove of jedi information -- one of the few repositories left after palpatine 's purge of the order .