kennel

Meaning

Noun

1. A house or shelter for a dog.
2. A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
3. (UK, collective) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
4. The hole of a fox or other animal.

Verb

1. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
2. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
3. (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

Synonyms

doghouse

dog house

pack

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

brace

brood

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

confine

coop up

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

gutter

harem

herd

hive

hovel

intrigue

Translations

Hundehütte

canile

niche

chenil

perrera

canil

cuccia

kennel

casota

Zwinger

casinha de cachorro

hondenhok

σκυλλόσπιτο

canera

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɛ.nəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: kenel

In summary

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.