kennel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small shelter or house for a dog

   The dog slept in a wooden kennel beside the barn.

2. 2
   noun

   a place where dogs are bred, trained, or boarded

   We left the dogs at a licensed kennel while we traveled.

3. 3
   verb

   to keep or house a dog in a kennel

   The handlers kennelled the dogs overnight before the show.

Simplified etymology

Kennel entered English in the Middle English period and ultimately derives from Latin canis, “dog.” It therefore shares its Latin root with canine and, more distantly, with the name of the Canary Islands.

From Middle English and Anglo-Norman kenil, ultimately from Medieval Latin canile (a place for dogs), from Latin canis (dog). The verb developed from the noun. A separate historical kennel meaning a gutter has a different origin.

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