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Webster 1913 Edition

Menagerie

Men-ag′er-ie

,

Noun.

[F.

ménagerie

, fr.

ménager

to keep house,

ménage

household. See

,

.]

1.

A place where animals are kept and trained.

2.

A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.

Definition 2024

menagerie

menagerie

See also: ménagerie

English

Noun

menagerie ‎(plural menageries)

A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept.
- 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth Abides
  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.
A diverse or miscellaneous group.

Translations

collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept

Armenian: գազանանոց (hy) ‎(gazananocʿ)
Finnish: eläintarha (fi)
French: ménagerie (fr) f
German: Menagerie (de) f
Greek: θηριοτροφείο (el) n ‎(thiriotrofeío)
Ancient: θηριοτροφεῖον n ‎(thēriotropheîon)
Ido: menajerio (io)
Italian: serraglio (it), recinto (it) m
Latin: vīvārium n

Macedonian: ѕверилник m ‎(dzvérilnik), менажерија f ‎(menažérija)
Polish: menażeria (pl) f
Portuguese: menagerie f
Romanian: menajerie (ro) f
Russian: звери́нец (ru) m ‎(zverínec)
Spanish: casa de fieras (es) f
Volapük: nimikonlet (vo)

diverse or miscellaneous group

Finnish: sekalainen (fi) joukko (fi)

Russian: сброд (ru) m ‎(sbrod) (disparaging)

Portuguese

Noun

menagerie f (plural menageries)

menagerie (collection of live wild animals on exhibition)