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Hovel vs Abode - What's the difference?

hovel | abode |

As nouns the difference between hovel and abode

is that hovel is an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc, from the weather while abode is (obsolete) act of waiting; delay or abode can be (obsolete) an omen; a foretelling .

As verbs the difference between hovel and abode

is that hovel is to put in a hovel; to shelter while abode is (abide) or abode can be (obsolete) to bode; to foreshow; to presage .

hovel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
  • A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=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.}}
  • In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
  • Verb

  • To put in a hovel; to shelter.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
  • *
  • The poor are hovelled and hustled together.

    abode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
  • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
  • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
  • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)
  • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
  • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
  • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References