Doghouse vs. Kennel — What's the Difference?

A doghouse, dog house, dogshed or kennel is a small shed commonly built in the shape of a house, intended to provide dogs with a sense of security and protection from various weather conditions. Numerous materials can be used, such as wood, plastic, resin, and hardboard.

A kennel is a structure or shelter for dogs or cats. Used in the plural, the kennels, the term means any building, collection of buildings or a property in which dogs or cats are housed, maintained, and (though not in all cases) bred.

A small shelter for a dog.

A shelter for a dog.

Any small house or structure or enclosure used to house a dog.

A pack of dogs, especially hounds.

A structure of small size, similar to a doghouse, but offering useful shelter for a human.

An establishment where dogs are bred, trained, or boarded.

Mechanically, an equipment cover with an opening, with a shape resembling a doghouse.

The lair of a wild animal, such as a fox.

(nautical) A difficult or demoralizing situation.

A gutter along a street.

A traffic signal with five sections: two on the bottom, two in the middle, and one on top.

To place or keep in or as if in a kennel.

(informal) Any shabby or disreputable establishment.

To take cover or lie in or as if in a kennel.

Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog

A house or shelter for a dog.

An idiomatic term for being in disfavor;

A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.

The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.

The hole of a fox or other animal.

(obsolete) The gutter at the edge of a street; a surface drain.

(obsolete) A puddle.

(transitive) To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

(intransitive) To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

(transitive) To drive (a fox) to covert in its hole.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.

A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds.

A pack of hounds, or a collection of dogs.

The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.

To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.

To put or keep in a kennel.

Outbuilding that serves as a shelter for a dog

Put up in a kennel;