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MENAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A social unit living together
Example:
the family refused to accept his will
Synonyms:
family; home; house; household; menage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
