menage

Other forms of menage

plural

menages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about menage

What does menage mean?

menage means "a social unit living together".

How many syllables are in menage?

menage has 2 syllables: me-nage. The stress falls on "me".

What is another word for menage?

Close synonyms include family, household, house, home. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is menage a common word?

menage is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.