Added 8 October 2026
channel
/ˈt͡ʃænəl/ noun
In Latin: canalis Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about channel at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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A path over which electrical signals can pass.
a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company
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A passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through.
the fields were crossed with irrigation channels
- A long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record).
verb
Origin
From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.
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