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menagerie

[ muh-naj-uh-ree, -nazh- ]

noun

  1. a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
  2. a place where they are kept or exhibited.
  3. an unusual and varied group of people.


menagerie

/ mɪˈnædʒərɪ /

noun

  1. a collection of wild animals kept for exhibition
  2. the place where such animals are housed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of menagerie1

1705–15; < French: literally, housekeeping. See ménage, -ery
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Word History and Origins

Origin of menagerie1

C18: from French: household management, which formerly included care of domestic animals. See ménage
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Example Sentences

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.

Plenker 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.

Thomas 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.”

From Time

Scientists increasingly connect it to our planet’s other special features, such as its stable atmosphere, protective magnetic field and menagerie of complex life.

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.

Displayed in a main hall lined with transparent cases, each is like a glass slipper menagerie.

Initially, 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.

On the first day of May, Barnum's menagerie came to our town; and Clarence went with his papa to see the animals.

Rabbah was to be a sheep-fold, Babylon a menagerie of wild beasts—a very specific difference and very improbable.

Juno lived in a great park, where there was a menagerie, and neither the park nor the menagerie could have done without Juno.

I 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.

That which was in the menagerie of Versailles, which came from Congo, was but seven feet and a half high, in his seventeenth year.

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