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menagry

menagry is the obsolete 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 menagry

pluralmenagries

Questions about menagry

What is menagry the obsolete form of?
Menagry is the obsolete form of menagerie.

Words near menagry in the dictionary

  1. menages a trois
  2. menages-a-trois
  3. menagogue
  4. menagogues
  5. menagries
  6. menagry
  7. Menah
  8. menahel
  9. Menai
  10. Menai Bridge
  11. Menai Strait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: menagry (page history and authors); menagerie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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