English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛnəl/
• Rhymes: -ɛnəl

Noun

kennel ‎(plural kennels)

1. A house or shelter for a dog.

   – We want to look at the dog kennels.
   – That's the pet department, second floor.

2. 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.

3. (Britain, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. IX, Working Aristocracy

     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.

4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

Synonyms

• (shelter for a dog): doghouse

Translations

Verb

kennel ‎(third-person singular simple present kennels, present participle kenneling or kennelling, simple past and past participle kenneled or kennelled)

1. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

   While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.

2. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
   • L'Estrange

     The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

Etymology 2

See channel, canal.

Pronunciation

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Noun

kennel ‎(plural kennels)

1. (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
   • 1899, Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian

     A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.

"Soon shall the Kennels swell with rapid Streams, And rush in muddy Torrents to the Thames." JOHN GAY (1685–1732) "Trivia: Or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London" (1716). Book I

1. (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) A puddle.

Finnish

Etymology

< Vulgar Latin *canile via Germanic languages, ultimately from Latin canis

Noun

kennel

1. kennel (facility at which dogs are reared or boarded)

Declension

Synonyms

• koiratarha