menagerie
IPA: mʌnˈædʒɝi
noun
- A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
- The enclosure where they are kept.
- A diverse or miscellaneous group.
- (obsolete, slang) The orchestra of a theatre.
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Examples of "menagerie" in Sentences
- All we needed to complete our menagerie was a magic-poor vampire.
- She was a collector of stray animals; in her menagerie were a cat with a lobotomy and a large dog with stunted legs.
- The national menagerie is collected by the first physiologists of the time; and it is defective in no description of savage nature.
- The only remaining Baroque-style menagerie is the zoo in Vienna, which has modernized enough to make the animals comfortable without losing its essentially radial layout.
- WAP-enabled devices (and the acronym menagerie that goes along with them) combine the rock-solid reliability of the Internet with the rock-solid reliability of a cell phone.
- A few feet away in this wall was an inset rubber-sealed glass door: behind this, I knew, lay what the scientists and technicians called the menagerie — one of four in Mordon.
- A few feet away in this wall was an inset rubber-sealed glass door: behind this, I knew, lay what the scientists and technicians called the menagerie -- one of four in Mordon.
- If the fishing isn't bizarre enough, there's some random samurai action going on and this whole menagerie is played out to Metallica's "Unforgiven," which, if you watch it a few times will become as hysterical to you as it has to me.
- I knew he kept ducks at the bottom of the garden -- an activity Siegfried regarded with a jaundiced eye as being part of a "menagerie" -- but all this, coming from a man who had no interest in food and, in fact, seemed to eat only on rare occasions, was difficult to take in.
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