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# kennel

«kennel» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small hut or shelter for a dog to sleep in** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kennel, kennels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A small hut or shelter for a dog to sleep in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#m1)

2) Kennels (often plural, UK): a place where dogs are looked after while their owners are away, or where dogs are bred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: the dog sleeps in a kennel in the garden; families put their dog in kennels during holidays. In stories, a dog guards its kennel. Phrases: put the dog in kennels, boarding kennels.

### examples

- Our dog has a wooden kennel in the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x1)
- We left Rex at the kennels while we were on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x2)
- The puppy curled up in its kennel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x3)
- The kennel needs a warm blanket for winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x4)
- She works at a kennel that trains guide dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x5)
- If a kennel charges 20 dollars a night, 5 nights cost 100 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/#x6)

### note

Countable noun. In US English a doghouse is the hut, and "kennel" often means the boarding place or a crate. "The kennels" (UK) can be singular in meaning: "The kennels is near the farm."

### In the corpora

- [The letters of CHIEN can be rearranged into NICHE, and une niche is a dog's kennel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/40-olympiad-mixed-brain-teasers/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kennel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kennel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.