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HOVEL
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Irregular inflected forms: hovelled , hovelling
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small crude shelter used as a dwelling
Synonyms:
hovel; hut; hutch; shack; shanty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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:
By great application, however, and after having remained during the space of several revolutions of the moon in my hovel, I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, fire, milk, bread, and wood. I learned also the names of the cottagers themselves.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I have copies of these letters, for I found means, during my residence in the hovel, to procure the implements of writing; and the letters were often in the hands of Felix or Agatha.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
