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Added 9 October 2026

kennel

/ˈkɛn.əl/ noun

Latin root: canis Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about kennel at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A house or shelter for a dog.
– We want to look at the dog kennels.– That's the pet department, second floor.
A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
The dogs kept at a dog-boarding facility; a pack of hounds.

verb

To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

noun

The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.
A puddle.

Origin

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.

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