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4 definitions found
for menage
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
m'enage \m['e]`nage"\ (m[asl]`n[.a]zh"), n.
See manege.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
m'enage \m['e]`nage"\ (m[asl]`n[.a]zh"), n. [See Menagerie.]
1. A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
2. A social group living together; a household.
Syn: family, household, house.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. A menage a trois.
[PJC] menage-a-trois
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
menage
n 1: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
many people made up his home" [syn: family, household,
house, home, menage]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "menage":
ancestral halls, brood, children, chimney corner, domestic economy,
domestic management, family, family homestead, fireplace, fireside,
folks, foyer, get, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, home,
home economics, home place, home roof, home sweet home, homefolks,
homemaking, homestead, house, household, housekeeping, housewifery,
husbandry, ingle, inglenook, ingleside, issue, offspring,
paternal roof, people, roof, rooftree, toft
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