Crossword-Solution: PIGEONHOLE 10 letters, 60 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
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.
Pigeonhole v. t. 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.

We have 60 clues for the answer “PIGEONHOLE”

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treat or classify according to a mental stereotype 1 answer
Assign to a definite place 1 answer
Avian compartment? 1 answer
Categorize simplistically 1 answer
Categorize unfairly 1 answer
Delay indefinitely 1 answer
Filing compartment 1 answer
I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European 1 answer
Lay aside indefinitely. 1 answer
Place in a particular slot 1 answer
Place in a slot 1 answer
Put aside indefinitely 1 answer
place into a small compartment 1 answer
a compartment for storing and classifying papers, for leaving letters,etc 1 answer
Sorter's slot 1 answer
Sort into compartments 1 answer
Sort in compartments 1 answer
Shelve, as legislation. 1 answer
Recess for filers 1 answer
Put in File B 1 answer
Put aside for the present 1 answer
compartmentalize 2 answers
filing system 2 answers
Part of a desk. 2 answers
Assign to a group or class 3 answers
Get rid of, in a way 5 answers
Filing aid 7 answers
Alphabetize 8 answers
put on file 9 answers
DESK FEATURE 11 answers
sectionalise 11 answers
A SPECIFIC CATEGORY 11 answers
Categorize 12 answers
ASIDE SET LAY PUT GROUP PLACE 12 answers
codify 13 answers
Shelve 14 answers
categorise 15 answers
lay aside 17 answers
Subdivision 22 answers
Catalog 25 answers
Repository. 26 answers
assort 27 answers
Cubbyhole 29 answers
Classify 39 answers
Postpone 41 answers
stall 51 answers
Set apart 52 answers
Section 54 answers
stereotype 54 answers
League 56 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PIGEONHOLE (5)

Tell Inspector Patterson that the papers which he needs to convict the gang are in pigeonhole M., done up in a blue envelope and inscribed ‘Moriarty.’ I made every disposition of my property before leaving England, and handed it to my brother Mycroft.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 1997
Indeed, all her queries seemed to be trying to incite him to those wide efforts of mind which bring into use the philosophic nerve; and it was long since he had generalized afresh about either things or people, having fallen for many years past into the habit of reaching his opinions down out of some pigeonhole or other.
The Freelands John Galsworthy 2006
The novel which for a time had filled him with enthusiasm and faith had no important literary value, whereas, concerning this new tale, he says: "I like it only tolerably well, as far as I have gone, and may possibly pigeonhole or burn the manuscript when it is done"--this of the story which, of his books of pure fiction, will perhaps longest survive.
Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 2, Part 1, 1875-1886 Albert Bigelow Paine 2006
When her tears at length ceased to flow, she dried her eyes, approached the writing-desk, drew out one of the boxes from the pigeonhole, and, taking from this hiding-place the manuscript which Florine had so rapidly glanced over the evening before, she wrote in it during a portion of the night.
The Wandering Jew, Book VII. Eugene Sue 2004
She had become slightly stout, revealing, as time went on, no wrinkles--a proof that the union was founded on something more enduring than poetry: Statesmanship--that was the secret! Step by step, slowly but surely, the memoranda in that matrimonial portfolio were growing into accomplished facts; all events, such as displacements of power, were foreseen; and the Plimptons, like Bismarck, had only to indicate, in case of sudden news, the pigeonhole where the plan of any particular campaign was filed.
The Inside of the Cup, Volume 2 Winston Churchill 2004

Quotes with PIGEONHOLE (3)

Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind our existence. We hunger for meaning the way a starving man does food — convinced we will waste away without it. As though to experience what it is to be alive weren’t enough to justify drawing breath. Life is a multi-layered practice in exploration, self-definition, connection, and realization. The greatest challenge presented to us as human beings is…
L.M. Browning
I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness and cadavers at the bottom of rivers weren't for radiophiles. There was nothing easygoing about the folk songs I sang. They weren't friendly or ripe with mellowness. They didn't come gently to the shore. I guess you could say they weren't commercial. Not onl…
Bob Dylan Chronicles, Vol. 1
I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.
Louis L'Amour The Lonesome Gods
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Used 33 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).