name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kennel
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈkɛn.əl/
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[ˈkhɛn.əl] ~ [ˈkhɛn.l̩]
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rhymes with -ɛnəl
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CMU ARPABET: K EH1 N AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A house or shelter for a dog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- – We want to look at the dog kennels. – That's the pet department, second floor.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doghouse
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
- She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pound, shelter
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, collective
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pack
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The hole of a fox or other animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: burrow, den
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trough
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A puddle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: doghouse, dog house
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: outbuilding, shelter
verb
Meaning 12
put up in a kennel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- kennel a dog
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: shelter
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
103 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Ahtna: łicʼae konaxeʼ — shelter
- Arabic: وِجَار (wijār) — shelter
- Arabic: بَيْت اَلْكَلْب (bayt al-kalb) — shelter
- Basque: txakurtegi — shelter
- Belarusian: бу́дка (búdka) — shelter
- Bulgarian: кучешка колиба (kučeška koliba) — shelter
- Burmese: ခွေးအိမ် (hkwe:im) — shelter
- Chinese Mandarin: 狗屋 (gǒuwū) — shelter
- Dutch: kennel — shelter
- Dutch: hondenhok — shelter
- Esperanto: hundejo — shelter
- Esperanto: hundujo — shelter
- Finnish: koirankoppi — shelter
- French: niche — shelter
- Galician: canil — shelter
- Georgian: საძაღლე (saʒaɣle) — shelter
- Georgian: ქოხი (koxi) — shelter
- Georgian: ქოხმახი (koxmaxi) — shelter
- German: Hundehütte — shelter
- German: Zwinger — shelter
- German: Hundezwinger — shelter
- Greek: σκυλόσπιτο (skylóspito) — shelter
- Hebrew: מְלוּנָה (mluná) — shelter
- Hungarian: kutyaól — shelter
- Hungarian: kutyaház — shelter
- Icelandic: hundakofi — shelter
- Irish: cró madra — shelter
- Irish: conchró — shelter
- Italian: canile — shelter
- Italian: cuccia — shelter
- Japanese: 犬小屋 (inugoya) — shelter
- Korean: 개집 (gaejip) — shelter
- Macedonian: кучкарник (kučkarnik) — shelter
- Malay: رومه انجيڠ — shelter
- Malay: رومه اسو — shelter
- Malay: rumah anjing — shelter
- Malay: rumah asu — shelter
- Navajo: łééchąąʼí bighan — shelter
- Norman: niche — shelter
- Norman: câniche — shelter
- Norwegian: hundehus — shelter
- Occitan: canigon — shelter
- Old English: hunda hūs — shelter
- Persian: سگدانی (sagdāni) — shelter
- Plautdietsch: Hunjsklotje — shelter
- Polish: buda — shelter
- Portuguese: canil — shelter
- Portuguese: casota — shelter
- Portuguese: casinha de cachorro — shelter
- Russian: конура́ (konurá) — shelter
- Russian: бу́дка (búdka) — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: псећа кућица — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: пасја кућица — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: штенара — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: pseća kućica — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: pasja kućica — shelter
- Serbo-Croatian: štenara — shelter
- Spanish: perrera — shelter
- Spanish: caseta — shelter
- Spanish: canil — shelter
- Spanish: cucha — shelter
- Spanish: transportín — shelter
- Swedish: hundkoja — shelter
- Turkish: köpek kulübesi — shelter
- Ukrainian: бу́да (búda) — shelter
- Ukrainian: халабу́да (xalabúda) — shelter
- Ukrainian: кону́ра (konúra) — shelter
- Urdu: تازی خانہ — shelter
- Volapük: dogadom — shelter
- Volapük: dogalecek — shelter
- Volapük: dogadomil — shelter
- Belarusian: пся́рня (psjárnja) — facility
- Belarusian: сабака́рня (sabakárnja) — facility
- Esperanto: hundejo — facility
- Finnish: kennel — facility
- Finnish: koiratarha — facility
- French: chenil — facility
- German: Hundeasyl — facility
- German: Hundeheim — facility
- German: Hundezucht — facility
- German: Zwinger — facility
- German: Hundezwinger — facility
- Greek: κυνοτροφείο (kynotrofeío) — facility
- Hungarian: kutyatenyészet — facility
- Hungarian: ebtenyészet — facility
- Irish: conchró coinneála — facility
- Italian: canile — facility
- Macedonian: кучкарник (kučkarnik) — facility
- Malay: tempat perlindungan anjing — facility
- Portuguese: canil — facility
- Russian: пса́рня (psárnja) — facility
- Serbo-Croatian: псетарник — facility
- Serbo-Croatian: psetarnik — facility
- Spanish: perrera — facility
- Spanish: covacha — facility
- Ukrainian: пса́рня (psárnja) — facility
- Volapük: dogibridöp — facility
- Finnish: koiralauma — pack of hounds
- Irish: conairt — pack of hounds
- Bulgarian: дупка (dupka) — hole of an animal
- Finnish: kolo — hole of an animal
- Bulgarian: канавка (kanavka) — A gutter at the edge of a street
- Hindi: नाली (nālī) — A gutter at the edge of a street
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