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Synonyms for ménage


Grammar : Noun
Spell : mey-nahzh; French mey-nazh
Phonetic Transcription : meɪˈnɑʒ; French meɪˈnaʒ

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Définition of ménage

Origin :
  • 1690s, "management of a household, domestic establishment," from French ménage, from Old French manage "household, family dwelling" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *mansionaticum "household, that which pertains to a house," from Latin mansionem "dwelling" (see mansion). Now generally used in suggestive borrowed phrase ménage à trois (1891), literally "household of three." Borrowed earlier as mayngnage, maynage and in the sense "members of a household, a man's household" (c.1300); but this was obsolete by c.1500.
  • As in extended family : noun parents, children, and relatives
  • As in menage : noun family
  • As in family : noun kin, offspring; classification
  • As in folk : noun person's relations, acquaintances
  • As in house : noun family, ancestry
  • As in household : noun domestic establishment
Example sentences :
  • I can sit on any horse, but I have had no opportunity of learning the menage.
  • Extract from : « Saint Bartholomew's Eve » by G. A. Henty
  • Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as Leonora presiding over a missionary's menage?
  • Extract from : « Dear Enemy » by Jean Webster
  • Let Mills (I see you have him still) call on me to-morrow about your menage.
  • Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Menage was younger, and aspired to be a man of the world as well as a savant.
  • Extract from : « The Women of the French Salons » by Amelia Gere Mason
  • Lucilla, as Jeckie well knew, had long been top dog in the Grice menage.
  • Extract from : « The Root of All Evil » by J. S. Fletcher
  • Menage quotes Suetonius, that Caligula was potionatus by his wife.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 » by Various
  • He then showed us a stable of brave horses, with his menage and cavalerizzo.
  • Extract from : « The Diary of John Evelyn (Vol 1 of 2) » by John Evelyn
  • This "menage" at Beaulieu oppressed him, and he hated the place.
  • Extract from : « Stella Fregelius » by H. Rider Haggard
  • You see, I am not quite sure what the immediate future of this menage is going to be.
  • Extract from : « The Zeppelin's Passenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • What right had Dan to reveal the secrets of our menage to this chit of a school-girl?
  • Extract from : « Paul Kelver » by Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

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