hovel en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhʌvəl/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈhɐvəl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈhɑvəl/ (General-American)
- /ˈhʌvəl/ (General-American)
- /ˈhɒvəl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈhɔvəl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- /ˈhɒvəl/ (Canada, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈhavəl/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
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Etymology
From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf + -el. Compare Middle High German hobel (“cover, lid, covered wagon”). Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.
Meanings
- An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
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(derogatory) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.
2000, Thomas à Kempis, “[The Sacrament of the Altar: How to Prepare for It & What It Tastes Like] Frequency”, in William Griffin, transl., The Imitation of Christ: How Jesus Wants Us to Live […] A Contemporary Version, HarperSanFrancisco, →ISBN, page 238:'Behold! once more I kiss thee, and by that kiss I give to thee dominion over sea and earth, over the peasant in his hovel, over the monarch in his palace halls, and cities crowned with towers, and those who breathe therein.'
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
- In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
- (Midwestern-US, archaic, slang) A straitjacket.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hovels | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (63)
hu viskó (poor cottage) · ru лачу́га (poor cottage) · cs bouda (poor cottage) · ru амба́р (open shed) · it riparo (open shed) · cs přístřešek (open shed) · pt barraco (poor cottage) · de Baracke (poor cottage) · it tettoia (open shed) · ota قولبه (poor cottage) · it cesso (poor cottage) · la gurgustium (poor cottage) · el χαμόσπιτο (poor cottage) · es casucha (poor cottage) · fa کپر (poor cottage) · it buco (poor cottage) · hu vityilló (poor cottage) · ota قولبه (open shed) · is kofi (poor cottage) · es tugurio (poor cottage) · mi kuha (poor cottage) · it bicocca (poor cottage) · la tugurium (poor cottage) · fr taudis (poor cottage) · ro cocioabă (poor cottage) · ro șopron (open shed) · cy twlc (open shed) · ota عریش (poor cottage) · it fogna (poor cottage) · it ricovero (open shed) · ru хлев (open shed) · bg на́вес (open shed) · gl alboio (poor cottage) · bg коли́ба (poor cottage) · cy cut (poor cottage) · es timberiche (poor cottage) · it stamberga (poor cottage) · de Unterstand (open shed) · io domacho (poor cottage) · de Bruchbude (poor cottage) · cs chatrč (poor cottage) · vec carobèra (poor cottage) · cs salaš (poor cottage) · it tugurio (poor cottage) · pt casebre (poor cottage) · es cuchitril (poor cottage) · hy խրճիթ (poor cottage) · sv skyffe (poor cottage) · ota عریش (open shed) · fi tönö (poor cottage) · gl alpendre (open shed) · cs bouda (open shed) · ru хиба́ра (poor cottage) · cy hofel (poor cottage) · cy cut (open shed) · ota باراقه (open shed) · fi lato (open shed) · ota باراقه (poor cottage) · is hreysi (poor cottage) · ca enfony (poor cottage) · ru сара́й (open shed) · eo domaĉo (poor cottage) · fi hökkeli (poor cottage)