menagerie

See also: Menagerie and ménagerie

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

menagerie (plural menageries)

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.
- 1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
  In 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.
A diverse or miscellaneous group.
(obsolete, slang) The orchestra of a theatre.

collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept

Armenian: գազանանոց (hy) (gazananocʻ)
Belarusian: звяры́нец m (zvjarýnjec)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 動物園 / 动物园 (zh) (dòngwùyuán)
Finnish: eläintarha (fi)
French: ménagerie (fr) f
Georgian: სამხეცე (samxece)
German: Menagerie (de) f
Greek: θηριοτροφείο (el) n (thiriotrofeío)
Ancient: θηριοτροφεῖον n (thēriotropheîon), ζωγρεῖον n (zōgreîon)
Ido: menajerio (io)
Italian: serraglio (it), recinto (it) m
Latin: vīvārium n
Macedonian: ѕверилник m (dzverilnik), менажерија f (menažerija)
Polish: menażeria (pl) f, zwierzyniec (pl) m
Portuguese: menagerie f, viveiro (pt) m
Romanian: menajerie (ro) f
Russian: звери́нец (ru) m (zverínec)
Spanish: casa de fieras (es) f
Swedish: menageri (sv) n
Turkish: hayvanat bahçesi (tr)
Ukrainian: звіри́нець (uk) m (zvirýnecʹ)
Volapük: nimikonlet (vo)

diverse or miscellaneous group

menagerie f (plural menageries)