Meaning

4 senses

  1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.

    Unterstand

    хлевxlev, амба́рambár, сара́йsaráj

  2. (derogatory)A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

    Bruchbude, Baracke

    хиба́раxibára, лачу́гаlačúga

  3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

  4. (Midwestern US, archaic, slang)A straitjacket.

More definitions
  • small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Nobody will buy such a hovel.

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  2. Is this the hovel you live in?

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  3. My house is a hovel.

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  4. I live in a hovel.

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  5. Tom lives in a hovel.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
open shed:
poor cottage:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
open shed:
poor cottage:

Origin

From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building

From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”).

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Forms

plural: hovels
Singularhovel
Pluralhovels

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
shackshanty
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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