Kennel Meaning
/ˈkɛn.əl/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA house or shelter for a dog.
nounA facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
Sentence Examples
Pochi and Moko are in the kennel, and other dogs are playing in the garden.
It took me five hours to make this kennel.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We left our dog at the ____ while we went on vacation for two weeks.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They left their dog at a local boarding ____ while they went away on their summer vacation last month.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— c. 1515-1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:
"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:
"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:
"Truth's a dog must to kennel;"
— c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 1, scene 4:
"The Dog Kennell'd in the Body of a Hollow Tree, and the Cock Roosted at night upon the Boughs."
— 1669, Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, Fable CXLIII: A Dog and a Cock upon a Journey, page 130:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We left our dog at the ____ while we went on vacation for two weeks.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
They left their dog at a local boarding ____ while they went away on their summer vacation last month.