menage

Other forms: menages

Definitions of menage

1. noun

   a social unit living together
   synonyms: family, home, house, household

   types:

   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

   type of:

   social unit, unit

   an organization regarded as part of a larger social group