Meaning

3 senses
  1. An enclosure for livestock, especially a circular one.

    We had a small corral out back where we kept our pet llama.

    Einpferchung, Gehege, Viehhof

    заго́нzagón

    загі́нzahín

  2. An enclosure or area to concentrate a dispersed group.

    Please return the shopping carts to the corral.

  3. A circle of wagons, either for the purpose of trapping livestock, or for defense.

    The wagon train formed a corral to protect against Comanche attacks.

    Wagenburg

More definitions
  • a pen for cattle

Examples

13 sentences
  1. NASA wants to corral an asteroid.

  2. The ewes have their own corral.

  3. The ewes were in the corral.

  4. Ziri got the sheep in the corral.

  5. The cows started running in the corral.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
enclosure for livestock:
Русский
By meaning 1
enclosure for livestock:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
enclosure for livestock:
circle of wagons:

Origin

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

From Spanish corral. Doublet of kraal.

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Forms

plural: corrals
Singularcorral
Pluralcorrals

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
livestock enclosure:penA1stockade
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
corral — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto