corral
Syllables: cor·ral/kəˈɹæl/
corral noun: an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
Noun
corral (plural corrals)
- An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
- We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.
- An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.
- Please return the shopping carts to the corral.
- A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.
- The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.
Verb
corral (third-person singular simple present corrals, present participle (US) corraling or (UK) corralling, simple past and past participle (US) corraled or (UK) corralled)
- To capture or round up.
- Between us, we managed to corral the puppies in the kitchen.
- I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- To place inside of a corral.
- After we corralled the last steer, we headed off to the chuck wagon for dinner.
- To make a circle of vehicles, as of wagons so as to form a corral.
- The cattle drivers corralled their wagons for the night.
Proper noun capitalized: Corral
Corral (plural Corrals)
- A surname.
corral meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
corral in Tamil
- அடைப்பிடம், பட்டி, கால்நடைப் பட்டி, தொழுவத்தில் அடை, அடை
corral in Marathi
- कोरल करण्यासाठी, कोअरल करण्यासाठी, कोरल करणे
corral in Urdu
- کورل کرنا
corral in Bengali
- গবাদি পশু রাখার ঘের, খোঁয়াড়
More languagesFewer languages
- corral in Malayalam
- കോറൽ ചെയ്യാൻ
- corral in Kannada
- ಮಾಳ, ರೊಪ್ಪ, ಲಾಯ, ದೊಡ್ಡಿ
- corral in Punjabi
- ਕੋਰਲ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- corral in Gujarati
- કોરલ કરવા માટે, કોઅરલ કરવા માટે, કોરલ કરવા
- corral in Nepali
- कोरल गर्न, कोरल गर्नका लागि, कोरिअल गर्न
Examples of corral in a sentence
- The linebacker corralled the runner who had slipped through the hole.
- The idea is to guide, manipulate, and herd them into the corral of ring-wing extremism.
- All individuals were ringed and adult geese neckbanded and returned to the corral.
Synonyms of corral
Forms of corral
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | corrals |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | corrals |
| present participle US | corraling |
| present participle UK | corralling |
| past participle US | corraled |
| past US | corraled |
| past participle UK | corralled |
| past UK | corralled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Corrals |
Origin of corral
From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.
Words formed from corral
- fish corral
- turtle-corral
- corraler
- corraller
Phrases with corral
Words that rhyme with corral
Questions about corral
- What does corral mean?
- Corral means an enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.
- What is corral in Tamil?
- Corral in Tamil is அடைப்பிடம், பட்டி, கால்நடைப் பட்டி. See Corral meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is corral?
- Corral can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce corral?
- Corral is pronounced /kəˈɹæl/.
- What is the plural of corral?
- The plural of corral is corrals.
Words near corral in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: corral (page history and authors); Corral (page history and authors); corral (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corral (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corral (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corral (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corral (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corral (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corral (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corral (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corral (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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