Menage

4 definitions found

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

  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 [gcide]:



  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) 2.0 [wn]:

  menage
       n : 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}]

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

  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