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
Whole families were crammed into one-room cellars, hovels, and cheap apartments.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
