How to pronounce“pigeonhole”in English
nounmumble but he was also expected to be a playwright musician dancer whatever you know we're all now we're all put in
our little pigeonholes you're even a stage actor rather than the theater actor it's it's it's um it's very um depressing whereas
you know the renaissance feeling was that you're capable of anything you put your mind to
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Definitions of “pigeonhole”
One of an array of open compartments for housing pigeons in a dovecote or pigeon loft.
“Holonyms: pigeon loft, dovecote, columbary, columbarium”
A hole or opening in a door or wall for a pigeon to pass through.
“The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole, though which the pigeons crept to their lodgings in the same high quarters of the premises; […] 'Dear Clym, I wonder how your face looks now?' she said, gazing abstractedly at the pigeon-hole, which admitted the sunlight so directly upon her brown hair and transparent tissues that it almost seemed to shine through her.”
To construct pigeonholes (noun sense 1 or 3.1) in (a place); also, to subdivide (a place) into pigeonholes.
“I had proposed to pigeon-hole the walls of the drawing-room for the reception of the dictionary material.”
To put (letters, papers, or other items) into pigeonholes or small compartments; also, to arrange or sort (items) by putting into pigeonholes.
“I would rather have my ashes scattered over the soil, to help the growth of the grass and daisies; but still I should not murmur much at having them decently pigeon-holed in a Roman tomb.”