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.

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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