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Hovel definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOV'EL, n. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.
HOV'EL, v.t. To put in a hovel; to shelter.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 15th century 1. an open shed or shelter 2. tabernacle 3. a small, wretched, and often dirty house ; hut

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a small miserable dwelling. 2 a conical building enclosing a kiln. 3 an open shed or outhouse. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hovel Hov"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoveledor Hovelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoveling or Hovelling.] To put in a hovel; to shelter. To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlon. --Shak. The poor are hoveled and hustled together. --Tennyson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hovel Hov"el, n. [OE. hovel, hovil, prob. a dim. fr. AS. hof house; akin to D. & G. hof court, yard, Icel. hof temple; cf. Prov. E. hove to take shelter, heuf shelter, home.] 1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. --Brande & C. 2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut. 3. (Porcelain Manuf.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped. --Knight.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hovels) 1. A hovel is a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair. They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years. N-COUNT 2. You describe a house, room, or flat as a hovel to express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition. I went for a living-in job, but the room I was given was a hovel. = dump N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Shed, hut, cot, cabin, mean habitation, hole, den.

Moby Thesaurus

Augean stables, burrow, coop, crib, dump, hole, hut, hutch, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, rookery, shack, shanty, slum, stable, sty, tenement, the slums, tumbledown shack, warren