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Webster 1913 Edition


menage


méˊnage′

(mā̍ˊnȧzh′)
,
Noun.
See
manege
.

méˊnage′

(mā̍ˊnȧzh′)
,
Noun.
[See
Menagerie
.]
1.
A collection of animals; a menagerie.
[Obs.]
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Menage

MEN'AGE

,
Noun.
A collection of brute animals.

Definition 2024


ménage

ménage

See also: menage, Menage, and ménagé

English

Alternative forms

Noun

ménage (plural ménages)

  1. A household; a domestic situation. [from 14th c.]
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 39:
      It smelled of ether and something else, possibly laudanum. I had never tried the mixture but it seemed to go pretty well with the Geiger ménage.
  2. (now 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. [from 19th c.]
  3. A group of people living together in a sexual relationship. [from 20th c.]

French

Etymology

From Old French manage, mainage, from manoir, maneir, maindre, from Latin manēre. The Old French forms maisnage, mesnage were influenced by the word maisnée, maisnede, from Vulgar Latin *mansionata, from Latin mansiō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /menaʒ/

Noun

ménage m (plural ménages)

  1. housework, housekeeping
  2. household

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from French ménage

Noun

ménage m or f (in variation) (plural ménages)

  1. domestic life
  2. household (everyone who lives in a given house)
  3. Short for ménage à trois.