menage a trois

1. 1.

   household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations

   Broaderfamily

Questions about menage a trois

What does menage a trois mean?

menage a trois means "household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations".

Is menage a trois a common word?

menage a trois is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.