hovel

Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

hov‧el/ˈhɒvəl $ ˈhʌ-, ˈhɑː-/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1300-1400; Origin : Perhaps from Low German]
a small dirty place where someone lives, especially a very poor person

noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He thought of Hob dying in his hovel, his wife frightened of the future.
▪ If you are on your own in a hovel it is nothing other than miserable.
▪ It shows that not all labourers' cottages were flimsy hovels and that families in this group could aspire to reasonable comfort.
▪ Not a hovel, not a peasant, not even a chicken nosing through the cinders.
▪ Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.
▪ The bear moved into the gardener's hovel.
▪ The guy who owned the hovel was named Mr Bartles.
▪ Yartsov and 12 other families who were assigned rundown concrete one-room hovels clustered in a muddy field.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hut, hutch, shack, shanty