HOVEL (hovelled, hovelling)

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Irregular inflected forms: hovelled    , hovelling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hovel mean? 

• HOVEL (noun)
  The noun HOVEL has 1 sense:

1. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

  Familiarity information: HOVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small crude shelter used as a dwelling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hovel; hut; hutch; shack; shanty

Hypernyms ("hovel" is a kind of...):

shelter (a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hovel"):

igloo; iglu (an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome)

mudhif (a reed hut in the marshlands of Iraq; rare since the marshes were drained)

 Context examples 

Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the family arose.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I eagerly seized the prize and returned with it to my hovel.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My mode of life in my hovel was uniform.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Being thus provided, I resolved to reside in this hovel until something should occur which might alter my determination.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This hovel however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance, but after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)