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# manger

«manger» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long open box or trough that horses and cattle eat from** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a manger, mangers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long open box or trough that horses and cattle eat from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#m1)

2) (Bible, Christmas) The manger in which Mary laid the baby Jesus, because there was no room at the inn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nativity plays and carols («Away in a Manger») the manger stands for Jesus's humble birth; Christians see it as God coming in poverty. On farms a manger holds hay or feed. Phrases: «away in a manger», «lying in a manger», «dog in the manger» (someone who won't let others have what they themselves cannot use).

### examples

- Mary laid the baby Jesus in a manger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x1)
- We sang «Away in a Manger» at the carol service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x2)
- The cows ate hay from the manger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x3)
- Our nativity scene has a tiny wooden manger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x4)
- Don't be a dog in the manger: if you're not using the ball, let us play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x5)
- The shepherds found the baby lying in a manger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x6)
- Then the man filled the manger with hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/#x7)

### note

Countable. Pronounced MAYN-jer. Not related to «mango» or «manager» (but it looks similar to «manager», so read carefully).

### In the corpora

- [Jesus was laid in a manger, which is an animal feeding trough.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/12-the-birth-of-jesus/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.