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menage

menage

1 9.3
A household of people who live together and share everyday life
  • noun
  • /məˈnɑːʒ/
translation icon : hogar
  • They built a cozy menage where family and friends could gather for celebrations.
  • menage a trois

Examples

  • - Welcome to our menage.

    Top Hat (1935)

  • After years of living alone, she finally created a happy menage with her partner and their two children.

  • Well, if you ever want to try a menage, you're welcome to join Richard and me.

    American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)

  • So first you've got a Singleton, then you've got relationships, whether it's two people or you've got a polyamorous situation or a menage, A trois, whatever.

  • The small menage included five roommates, each contributing to the household chores.

Synonyms

family
vsmenage
∞ 1.0

People who live together in one home, usually parents and their children

is broader, covering all people in the home not only parent and child relations
house
vsmenage
715 1.0

A group of people who live together in one home

is the same idea but named from the unit rather than the physical building
household
vsmenage
501 1.0

The people who live together in one home, often a family

is the same concept but called in a different language or style
family unit
vsmenage
21 1.8

A group of parents and their children who live together

is wider, applying to any people living together as a social unit

How Large

commune
29 5.0
menage
1 9.3

Surface Forms

menage singular
menages plural

Etymology

Menage comes from the French ménage, which meant the people and the care of a 'house' or 'home'. So a menage is the household, the people who live together.