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How to pronounce hovel in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hut, hutch, shack, shanty
Type of shelter
Has types igloo, iglu, mudhif

Examples of hovel

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Her new apartment, unlike her current hovel, would be fit for human habitation.
From the economist.com
Hovel and Yanek are downing shot after shot, beer after beer and then the call.
From the abcnews.go.com
The family home in Alton was fine, they said, hardly the hovel Irons described.
From the stltoday.com
We're talking about the mighty Drax here, not a small fir in a peasant's hovel.
From the guardian.co.uk
I called him at his hovel and was relieved to learn he has replaced that bedsheet.
From the post-gazette.com
For $149, I feared an airless, beach-hut-size hovel, but I'm pleasantly surprised.
From the guardian.co.uk
One person's dilapidated hovel is another's economic-development opportunity.
From the denverpost.com
Hunched over plastic buckets outside a brick hovel, they shell 1,000 kilos a month.
From the economist.com
Heck, the hecklerspray bedsit would be a more dilapidated hovel than it already is.
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More examples
  • Small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  • Hu00F6vels is a municipality in the district of Altenkirchen, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.
  • An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather; A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut; In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped; To put in a hovel; to shelter
  • An open-sided shed or outhouse for cattle, storing grain, tools etc.
  • A small shed for sheltering animals or storing supplies.
  • A small hut, usually made of dried mud, and not really fit to live in.
  • N. The fruit of a flower called the Palace.
  • Miserable poor dwelling.