Definition

Noun: 1. An enclosure for animals: A structure, often with walls and a roof, used to confine, shelter, or raise domestic animals or birds. 2. A storage enclosure: A designated, often enclosed, area in a rural setting used for storing materials like manure or aquatic plants.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Animal Enclosure):
  • Con lợn đang ở trong chuồng. (The pig is in the sty.)
  • Họ xây một cái chuồng mới cho đàn gà. (They built a new coop for the chickens.)
  • Con ngựa được dẫn ra khỏi chuồng. (The horse was led out of the stable.)
• Noun (Storage Enclosure):
  • Bác nông dân đang lấy phân từ chuồng phân. (The farmer is getting manure from the manure enclosure.)

Advanced Usage

• "sổng chuồng": To escape from an enclosure (literally: to slip/break out of the pen/cage). Often used figuratively to mean someone has escaped from confinement or control.
  • Con khỉ đã sổng chuồng khỏi vườn thú. (The monkey escaped from its cage at the zoo.)
• "mất bò mới lo làm chuồng": A proverb meaning "to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted." It describes taking preventive action only after a loss has occurred.

Variants and Related Words

• Chuồng trại (n): A general term for animal pens, sheds, or farm buildings.
• Chuồng cọp (n): Literally "tiger cage." Historically refers to the small, cramped prison cells used for political prisoners. Can also mean a cage for tigers in a zoo.
• Chuồng thú (n): An animal cage or enclosure (in a zoo).

Synonyms

• Cũi (n): A cage (often smaller, portable, or for pets/birds). (dog crate).
• Lồng (n): A cage (often for birds or small animals, typically made of wire or bamboo). (birdcage).
• Rào (n): A pen or corral (an enclosure defined by fences). (sheep pen).

Related Phrases

• Nhốt chuồng (v): To put/keep in a pen/cage.
  • Nhốt con chó vào chuồng. (Put the dog in the kennel.)
• Quét chuồng (v): To clean out the pen/sty/coop.
  • Mỗi sáng, tôi phải quét chuồng gà. (Every morning, I have to clean the chicken coop.)

Related Idioms

• Như gà mắc tóc (trong chuồng): To be flustered, panicked, or running around in confusion (like a chicken with its feathers tangled).
• Chật như chuồng heo: Extremely crowded (as crowded as a pigsty).

noun

1. Stable, sty, cage, coop
   • chuồng heo
     a pigsty
   • chuồng cọp
     a tiger cage
   • chuồng gà
     a hen-coop
2. Enclosure (in which is heaped something)
   • chuồng phân
     an enclosure for manure, an enclosed heap of manure