menage
pronunciation
How to pronounce menage in British English:
UK [meɪˈnɑ:ʒ]
How to pronounce menage in American English:
US [meɪˈnɑːʒ]
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- Noun:
- a social unit living together
Word Origin
- menage (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Oh , what would that be , a menage ?
- 2. Visitors are flocking to see the characters in an unusual menage a trois at san francisco zoo .
- 3. ' How do you menage to get to work so early ? ' He said ironically .