carrel

Also used as

carrel is also the alternative spelling of carol.

Examples of carrel in a sentence

• He then returned to his carrell for his own research.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.6, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 76:
• Nine months, up in a study carrel on deck eight.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 82:
• I sneaked a look at what the German student in the next carrel was reading.2011, David Bellos, “Global Flows: Center and Periphery in the Translation of Books”, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the...

Synonyms of carrel

• cubicle
• quarrel

Forms of carrel

Origin of carrel

A variant of carol (“small closet or enclosure”), from Middle English carole (“round dance with singing; group of people dancing and singing in a circle; circular thing; braid, chain (?); stall for study or writing; writing table; etc.”) (possibly referring to the fact that the item encloses or surrounds the person using it): see further at carol.

Probably borrowed from Middle French carrelé (“type of fabric”), probably from carrelé (“having checks”), an adjective use of the past participle of carreler (“to pave; to tile”) (modern French carreler), from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”), from Old French quarel (“square block of stone”), from Vulgar Latin *quadrellus, from Latin quadrus (“square”, adjective), probably from quattuor (“four”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”)) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Possibly a variant of quarrel.

Words formed from carrel

• Carrel-Dakin fluid
• Carrel-Dakin solution

Words that rhyme with carrel

• barrel
• carroll
• carol
• Farrell
• carrol

Questions about carrel

What does carrel mean?

Carrel means a partitioned space for reading or studying, often in a library.

How do you use carrel in a sentence?

He then returned to his carrell for his own research.

What part of speech is carrel?

Carrel can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce carrel?

Carrel is pronounced /ˈkæɹəl/ (UK).

What is the plural of carrel?

The plural of carrel is carrels.