Menagerie \Men*ag"er*ie\, n. [F. m['e]nagerie, fr. m['e]nager to
keep house, m['e]nage household. See Menial, Mansion.]
1. A place where animals are kept and trained.
[1913 Webster]
2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for
exhibition.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
menagerie
n 1: a collection of live animals for study or display
2: the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
[syn: zoo, zoological garden]
WordNet (r) 2.0
20 Moby Thesaurus words for "menagerie":
Festschrift, ana, anthology, aquarium, body, chrestomathy,
collectanea, collection, compilation, corpus, data, florilegium,
fund, holdings, library, museum, raw data, treasure, zoo,
zoological garden
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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