Menagerie

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪˈnædÊ’É™rɪ/

Origin

From French ménagerie, derived from ménager ("to keep house"), household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.

Full definition of menagerie

Noun

1. A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept.
• 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart Earth_AbidesIn Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
2. A diverse or miscellaneous group.