Meaning

A house or shelter for a dog..

Definitions by Sense

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.
5. (transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
6. (intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
7. (transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.
8. The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.

Example Sentences

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

A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write, Of fals double tunges in the diſpite.

The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.

She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel.

A little herd of England's timorous deer, / Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!

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.

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

Truth's a dog must to kennel;

Word Forms

• kennels
• kenneling
• kennelling
• kenneled
• kennelled

Synonyms for kennel

Related Words

When Should You Use Kennel?

Use kennel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

Practice This Word

Frequently Asked Questions