Definition of Pigeonhole

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Pigeonhole

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.

To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.

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Pigeonhole Quotations

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.
Tim McGraw

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
Bob Woodward

People like to pigeonhole you.
Jason Statham

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
Lukas Foss

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.
Bill Forsyth

I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
Karen Black

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life.
Colm Meaney

Pigeonhole Translations

pigeonhole in Afrikaans is afdeling, vak
pigeonhole in Danish is afdeling
pigeonhole in Dutch is afdeling, branche, vak
pigeonhole in Finnish is lokero
pigeonhole in German is einordnen

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