Definition of "hovels" []

• Plural form of hovel. (noun)

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• "Most of the residents of Oaxaca live in hovels with inadequate social services and the powers-that-be only care about the feckless tourists and expats that come and go and do nothing for this city except eat its lunch."
• "And he concludes the letter: "Sir, the first law of all education is to teach our youth to love truth and speak it, to love work and thoroughly do it, to dove knowledge and seek it, not in hovels but in fields and seas and only so far as we love these three things ourselves can we teach the love of them to others.""
• "When prisoners collapsed exhausted, starved, or ill, many were left to fend for themselves in hovels."