hovel
noun
a small, very humble dwelling house; a wretched hut.
hovels
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pluralof hovel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Mark me: In the bombed-out hovels of West Berlin, there was a first drag show to hail the city’s resurrection.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Garcetti has acknowledged that he became the public face of homelessness, with the attendant images of sidewalks and underpasses crowded with filthy tents and cardboard hovels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
The brothers also disliked the fact that bookmakers' shops looked like "hovels".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021
Brick hovels have been replaced by whimsical mansions.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2019
No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
