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ménagerie

ménagerie is the alternative form of menagerie.

Meaning of menagerie

Noun

menagerie (plural menageries)

  1. A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
    Synonyms:
    zoo
  2. The enclosure where they are kept.
    • In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
  3. A diverse or miscellaneous group.
    • [Brigitte] Bardot, the stunning, desirable beauty who once stood for sexual freedom for women, spent the latter part of her life at her home near Saint Tropez with her husband and a menagerie of pets.2025 December 28, Elizabeth Blair, “Brigitte Bardot, sex goddess of cinema, has died”, in NPR
  4. (obsolete, slang) The orchestra of a theatre.

Forms of ménagerie

pluralménageries

Questions about ménagerie

What is ménagerie the alternative form of?
Ménagerie is the alternative form of menagerie.

Words near ménagerie in the dictionary

  1. ménage
  2. ménage à moi
  3. ménage à quatre
  4. ménage à trois
  5. ménage-à-trois
  6. ménagerie
  7. ménageries
  8. ménages
  9. ménages à moi
  10. ménages à quatre
  11. ménages à trois

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