Meaning

1 senses
  1. (US)An animal shelter where stray dogs are kept.

    a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Abandoned dogs usually end up in dog pounds.

  2. They have a dog from a dog pound.

  3. Tom has established a dog pound in the town.

  4. Rodrigo's family went to the dog pound to adopt a dog.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: dog pounds
Singulardog pound
Pluraldog pounds

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs:pound

Word family

1 related words
Relateddogcatcher

See also

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