MENAGERIE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does menagerie mean? 

• MENAGERIE (noun)
  The noun MENAGERIE has 2 senses:

1. a collection of live animals for study or display

2. the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition

  Familiarity information: MENAGERIE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENAGERIE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection of live animals for study or display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("menagerie" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

menagerie; zoo; zoological garden

Hypernyms ("menagerie" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

 Context examples 

A regular menagerie appeared in barn and shed, for pet animals were allowed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Once the ark is built, Uta–napishti and his family clamber aboard and survive with a menagerie of animals.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

In similar ways she had experienced unusual feelings when she looked at wild animals in the menagerie, or when she witnessed a storm of wind, or shuddered at the bright-ribbed lightning.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Through the dim smoke-haze the bunks looked like the sleeping dens of animals in a menagerie.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Now, the old sofa was a regular patriarch of a sofa—long, broad, well-cushioned, and low, a trifle shabby, as well it might be, for the girls had slept and sprawled on it as babies, fished over the back, rode on the arms, and had menageries under it as children, and rested tired heads, dreamed dreams, and listened to tender talk on it as young women.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)