Kennel

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É›nÉ™l

From Anglo-Norman, from a Old Northern French variant of Old French chenil (whence modern French chenil), from Vulgar Latin *canile, ultimately from Latin canis

Full definition of kennel

Noun

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. (UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, ch. IX, Working AristocracyA 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

Verb

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'EstrangeThe dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

Pronunciation

See channel, canal.

Noun

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