hovel
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈhɑvəl/
- ...it's nothing but a rented hovel.
- live in hovels
- smoky hovel
- little hovel
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Watch on YouTubeBut people still want to stay on Earth rather than being stuck out on Aun hovel in the colonies.
- But people still want to stay on Earth rather than being stuck out on Aun hovel in the colonies.
- And as you, you know, go from your dorm to your apartment, your hovel.
- Like today, average is you're barely making it in this rented shit hovel that you live in.
Examples
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What a decrepit hovel!
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Then what are you doing sitting here in this hovel with Sara and me?
Fiction book (1995) -
We're living in a hovel in Menlo Park.
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Still another showed an ill-clad family sitting in front of a hovel they called home.
Academic text (2000) -
There he is, tiny, neglected, malnourished Napoleon, in a room in some hovel in Brownsville.
Fiction book (2001) -
You don't have enough equipment to bring these people outta their dang hovels over there.
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There are still people living in squatter hovels in townships for Africans.
Academic text (1992) -
Moonlight passed through the hovel's rickety frame, falling in knifelike triangles across the floor.
Fiction book (1992) -
Around town, there were scores of government-sponsored apartment complexes—hovels, essentially—but they made ideal base camps.
Academic text (2007) -
The family struggled to make a home in the small, dirty hovel they could afford.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small simple building where people live or stay
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1.8
A small rough shelter made from wood and metal scraps
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6.8
A small rough shelter made from old boards and metal
A very small run-down house with broken walls and a damaged roof
A small, simple shelter where people live, often temporary
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Etymology
The word hovel comes from old northern European words like hovele that meant a 'small shelter' or 'shed'. So a hovel is a tiny, rough, often dirty house that is barely fit to live in.