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Definition of Menagerie

1. Noun. A collection of live animals for study or display.

2. Noun. The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition.

Definition of Menagerie

1. n. A piace where animals are kept and trained.

Definition of Menagerie

1. Noun. A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept. ¹

2. Noun. A diverse or miscellaneous group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Menagerie

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Menagerie

menacingness menad menadiol menadiol diacetate menadiol sodium diphosphate menadione menadione alkyltransferase menadione reductase menadione sodium bisulfite menadiones

menads menage menage a trois menaged menagerie (current term) menageries menages menaging menagogue menagogues

menagry menaia menaion menaphthone menaquinol oxidase menaquinone menaquinone-6 menaquinone-7 menaquinones

Literary usage of Menagerie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"Born in the menagerie, May 20, 1875. n. Female. Born in the menagerie, April 23, 187G. o. Malo. Born in the menagerie ..."

2. The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1874)
"... the Norfolk Giant—Affray at Greenwich—Death of Wombwell—Lion Queens—Catastrophe in a menagerie— World's Fair at Bayswater—Abbott's Theatre—Charlie Keith ..."

3. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1869)
"I therefore made arrangements with the renowned Van Amburgh menagerie Company to unite their entire collection of living wild animals with the Museum. ..."

4. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1883)
"I owned forty per cent, and the Van Amburgh Company held the remaining sixty per cent, in the new enterprise, which comprehended a large traveling menagerie ..."

5. The Menageries.: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects by James Rennie, William Ogilby, Charles Knight (1829)
"The menagerie of Paris is now one of the principal attractions of that capital. In the number of its specimens, in the convenience of its arrangements, ..."

6. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"At the beginning of the present century the menagerie had dwindled away to ... The beautiful work, called the 'Tower menagerie,' is a happy evidence of the ..."

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