Other forms: kennels
A kennel is the small shelter a dog sleeps in. A dog kennel, in the kennel, build a kennel.
In the plural, kennels means a boarding establishment where dogs stay while their owners are away — put the dog in kennels. It also means the buildings where a pack of hounds is kept. The Kennel Club is the British body that registers pedigree dogs. Note in the doghouse, which is the American equivalent of being in trouble, and that a kennel is one of the few dog objects with its own separate word.
1nounkennelThe small shelter a dog sleeps in.
“The kennel has been empty since about 2019.”
2nounplaceA place where dogs are boarded.
“We put the dog in kennels while we went on holiday.”
kennel is a dog shelter.
Vulgar Latin canile comes from canis, a dog — the same root as canine and, at a distance, hound. A kennel is literally a dog-place, built on the same pattern as the Latin words for a stable and a sheepfold.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱwṓ
Latin
canis
Vulgar Latin
*canīle
Old French
chenil
Anglo-Norman
*kenil
Middle English
kenel
English, today
kennel
From Middle English kenel, kenell, borrowed from Anglo-Norman kenil, northern variant of Old French chenil, from Vulgar Latin canīle, from Latin canis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA