Hotel vs Hovel - What's the difference?
hotel | hovel |
The letter H' in the NATO phonetic alphabet. (This word is not translated, and is ' hotel in all languages.)
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An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
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To put in a hovel; to shelter.
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As nouns the difference between hotel and hovel
is that hotel is a large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France while hovel is an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.As a verb hovel is
to put in a hovel; to shelter.hotel
Translingual
Symbol
(head)hovel
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Verb
- To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
- The poor are hovelled and hustled together.