noun
- small, dirty, poorly built houses or shelters
Usage: plural of hovel
Examples
- The refugees were forced to live in makeshift hovels.
- The old mining town was filled with crumbling hovels.
- Aid workers built temporary hovels for the displaced families.
- The storm destroyed several hovels in the settlement.
- They replaced the hovels with proper housing units.
- The hovels lacked running water and electricity.