Noun: kennel
| Singular | kennel |
| Plural | kennels |
Sample Sentences
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– We want to look at the dog kennels.
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– That's the pet department, second floor.
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A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell
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Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel;
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Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,
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Of fals double tunges in the diſpite. [c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:]
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The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
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She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like kennel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *ḱwṓ
3. From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman *kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin *canīle, from Latin canis. See: Middle English Nouns '
kenel', Latin Nouns '
canis'.
Verbs referencing "kennel"
Dutch Nouns
kennel, French Nouns
chenil.