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
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
They set up camp in these little like hovels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2017
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
