menagerie vs collection

menagerie and collection both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
menagerie	Yes	No	No	No
collection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, collection is a hypernym of menagerie; that is, collection is a word with a broader meaning than menagerie:

Other hypernyms of menagerie include accumulation, aggregation, assemblage.

menagerie (noun)	collection (noun)
the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition	the act of gathering something together
a collection of live animals for study or display	a publication containing a variety of works
	request for a sum of money
	several things grouped together or considered as a whole