Menagerie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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