MENAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does menage mean? 

• MENAGE (noun)
  The noun MENAGE has 1 sense:

1. a social unit living together

  Familiarity information: MENAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A social unit living together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family; home; house; household; menage

Context example:

the family refused to accept his will

Hypernyms ("menage" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "menage"):

broken home (a family in which the parents have separated or divorced)

conjugal family; nuclear family (a family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner)

extended family (a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives)

foster family (the family of a fosterling)

foster home (a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency))

menage a trois (household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations)

 Context examples 

Then a sub-title, 'Glimpse of a singular menage.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)