menagerie

3 definitions found

menagerie - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

menagerie - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  menagerie
      n 1: a collection of live animals for study or display
      2: the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
         [syn: menagerie, zoo, zoological garden]

menagerie - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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