kennel
Syllables: ken·nel/ˈkɛn.əl/
kennel noun: a house or shelter for a dog.
Noun (1)
kennel (plural kennels)
- A house or shelter for a dog.
- – We want to look at the dog kennels.
– That's the pet department, second floor. - A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
Of fals double tunges in the diſpite.c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568
- Synonyms:
- doghouse
- – We want to look at the dog kennels.
- A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
- The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
- She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
- The dogs kept at a dog-boarding facility; a pack of hounds.
- A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 4, scene 2
- A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.1843, Thomas Carlyle, “IX: Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, book 3
- The hole of a fox or other animal.
Verb
kennel (third-person singular simple present kennels, present participle (US) kenneling or (UK) kennelling, simple past and past participle (US) kenneled or (UK) kennelled)
- To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
- While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
- To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
- Truth's a dog must to kennel;c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4
- The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs.1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130
- To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
- This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed...1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
Noun (2)
kennel (plural kennels)
- The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
- Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt / Troubles the silver spring where England drinks […].1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- [A] scavenger working in the kennel1630, Ios. Exon. [i.e., Joseph Hall of Exeter], edited by R[obert] H[all], Occasionall Meditations, London: […] [Benjamin Alsop and T. Fawcet?] for Nath[aniel] Butter, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- trough
- A puddle.
Proper noun capitalized: Kennel
Kennel (plural Kennels)
- A surname.
kennel meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
kennel in Hindi
- A gutter at the edge of a street
- नाली nālī
kennel in Tamil
- நாய்க்கூண்டு
kennel in Marathi
- केनेल, केनेलला
kennel in Urdu
- shelter
- تازی خانہ
More languagesFewer languages
- kennel in Bengali
- কুকুর রাখার ঘর, আস্তানা
- kennel in Telugu
- కెన్నెల్, కేనెల్
- kennel in Malayalam
- നായ്ക്കൂട്, നായവളർത്തൽ കേന്ദ്രം
- kennel in Kannada
- ನಾಯಿಗೂಡು
- kennel in Punjabi
- ਕੇਨੇਲ, ਕੇਨਲ
- kennel in Odia
- କେନେଲ, କେନ୍ନେଲ୍, କେନେଲ୍
- kennel in Nepali
- केनेल, केनल, केनेलमा
- kennel in Arabic
- وِجَار wijār, بَيْت اَلْكَلْب bayt al-kalb
- kennel in Malay
- rumah anjing, rumah asu, tempat perlindungan anjing
- kennel in Persian
- سگدانی sagdāni
- kennel in Myanmar
- ခွေးအိမ် hkwe:im
Examples of kennel in a sentence
- Below to thy nightly grave ; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last. — Down, dog, and kennel!"1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 29, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers...
- Soon ſhall the Kennels ſvvell vvith rapid Streams, / And ruſh in muddy Torrents to the Thames.[1716], [John] Gay, “Book I. Of the Implements for Walking the Streets, and Signs of the Weather”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the...
- [A] chair happening to pass, he laid hold of the opportunity, and by an exertion of his muscles pitched upon the top of the carriage, which was immediately overturned in the kennel […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 102:
Synonyms of kennel
Forms of kennel
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | kennels |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | kennels |
| present participle US | kenneling |
| present participle UK | kennelling |
| past participle US | kenneled |
| past US | kenneled |
| past participle UK | kennelled |
| past UK | kennelled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Kennels |
Origin of kennel
PIE word *ḱwṓ From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis.
From Middle English canel, from Old French canel, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from Latin canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Cognate with English channel, canal.
Words formed from kennel
Phrases with kennel
Words that rhyme with kennel
Questions about kennel
- What does kennel mean?
- Kennel means a house or shelter for a dog.
- What is kennel in Hindi?
- Kennel in Hindi is नाली (nālī). See Kennel meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use kennel in a sentence?
- Below to thy nightly grave ; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last. — Down, dog, and kennel!"
- What part of speech is kennel?
- Kennel can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce kennel?
- Kennel is pronounced /ˈkɛn.əl/.
- What is the plural of kennel?
- The plural of kennel is kennels.
Words near kennel in the dictionary
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