menagerie
a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
a place where they are kept or exhibited.
an unusual and varied group of people.
Origin of menagerie
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How to use menagerie in a sentence
To replace that functionality, Google’s engineers have marched out a menagerie of bird-themed acronyms like FLOC, FLEDGE and TURTLEDOVE to describe their proposals for advertising without cookies.
Google is totally changing how ads track people around the Internet. Here’s what you need to know. | Gerrit De Vynck | June 24, 2021 | Washington PostPlenker is charged with keeping this murderous menagerie alive and well.
Our menagerie was not likely to be welcome at the city’s inns or hotels.
Renting a vacation home for the first time? Don’t take anything for granted. | Candyce H. Stapen | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostThomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson and namesake of the third president, lamented that Virginia had become “one grand menagerie, where men are reared for the market like oxen for the shambles.”
America's Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country's Economy | Joshua D. Rothman | April 20, 2021 | TimeScientists increasingly connect it to our planet’s other special features, such as its stable atmosphere, protective magnetic field and menagerie of complex life.
Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life | Howard Lee | March 25, 2021 | Quanta Magazine
On the outside, artists turned the yellow bus into a trippy menagerie of abstract scenes and designs.
A pile of straw right by the menagerie lit on fire, and reached the tent in seconds.
Thrills and Too Many Spills: The Dangers of the Circus | Marina Watts | May 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDisplayed in a main hall lined with transparent cases, each is like a glass slipper menagerie.
Shoes Fit For A Museum: Roger Vivier’s Virigule Show Opens at Palais De Tokyo | Sarah Moroz | October 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTInitially, it seems that oddities are what British journalist Jon Ronson is after in this charming menagerie of essays.
Guangdong has long been known for its menagerie of exotic ingredients.
Poisoning of CEO in Cat Stew Stirs Outrage Among Rights Activists | Dan Levin | January 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the first day of May, Barnum's menagerie came to our town; and Clarence went with his papa to see the animals.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 | VariousRabbah was to be a sheep-fold, Babylon a menagerie of wild beasts—a very specific difference and very improbable.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardJuno lived in a great park, where there was a menagerie, and neither the park nor the menagerie could have done without Juno.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 | VariousI saw the man at the menagerie giving them apples,” said Minnie; “but he did not give them any meat all the time I was there.
Minnie's Pet Monkey | Madeline LeslieThat which was in the menagerie of Versailles, which came from Congo, was but seven feet and a half high, in his seventeenth year.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
British Dictionary definitions for menagerie
/ (mɪˈnædʒərɪ) /
a collection of wild animals kept for exhibition
the place where such animals are housed
Origin of menagerie
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