hovel

Reikšmė (anglų kalba)

Noun

1. An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
2. A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
3. In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.

Verb

1. To put in a hovel; to shelter.
2. To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.

Sinonimai

hut

🛖

shack

shanty

shed

cottage

thatched cottage

hutch

my humble cottage

home

🏠

dump

house

🏠

kennel

outhouse

pigpen

poorhouse

ramshackle hut

shebang

shelter

slum

small

small house

small room

sty

jeryhouse

mean dwelling

rat-trap

dilapidated house

miserable shack

aperture

blighted house

bungalow

byre

cabin

cell

cot

crib

den

doghouse

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/ˈhɒvəl/

Etimologija (anglų kalba)

From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of *hove, *hof (“structure, building, house”), from Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), 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.