Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: menagerie
IPA transcription: [mən'ædʒɚi]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: menagerie, zoo, zoological_garden
    Meaning: the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
  • Synonyms: menagerie
    Meaning: a collection of live animals for study or display
Usage examples
  • "It is a conservatory, Axel; but is it not also a menagerie?"
  • It certainly is a menagerie, for these remains were not brought here by a deluge.
  • But the ark-builder, hatless and one-armed, still presided over a menagerie of sorry beasts.
  • But when the rains descend the wilderness is a menagerie of tigers and tapirs, pumas and bears, while a host of reptiles, led by the gigantic boa, creep forth from their hiding-places.
  • Those who have adopted a life of seclusion from sudden and overstrained enthusiasm, or in hasty resentment of some disappointment or mortification, are very miserable. The quickness of sensation soon returns, and like the wilder animals in a menagerie, they are restless under confinement, while others muse or fatten in cells of no larger dimensions than theirs."