Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Pigeonhole   Listen
noun
Pigeonhole  n.  A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Pigeonhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... the contents lists on the outside of the bundles—came through this office to stock the whole of France for the next year and a half. Now, though"—tossing a long, yellow envelope across the room into a numbered pigeonhole—"things have slackened up a bit. A week ago I had half an hour off ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces

... took the document from Dr. Dohl's relaxing hands and shoved it into a pigeonhole of the ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day



Words linked to "Pigeonhole" :   classify, stamp, lay, cubbyhole, set, sort out, position, separate, stereotype, assort, category, class, compartment



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org