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menage

menage is the alternative form of ménage.

Meaning of ménage

Noun

ménage (plural ménages)

  1. (collective) A household; a domestic situation.
    • "Oh," cried her ladyship, "I see the whole ménage; they will take a first floor over a baker's shop, to save fire, and live upon red herrings during the week, with a mutton chop by way of meat on a Sunday."1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 167
  2. (Scotland) A type of cooperative society whereby all members pay a regular sum of savings, or through which goods can be paid for in installments.
  3. A group of people in a sexual relationship; especially, such a group that live together; the relationship itself.

Forms of menage

pluralmenages

Phrases with menage

Questions about menage

What is menage the alternative form of?
Menage is the alternative form of ménage.

Words near menage in the dictionary

  1. menadione
  2. menadiones
  3. menads
  4. Menae
  5. MENAFATF
  6. menage
  7. menage a trois
  8. menage-a-card
  9. menage-a-trois
  10. menagerie
  11. menageries

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