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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A platform that projects from the wall of a building and is surrounded by a railing, balustrade, or parapet.
  2. n. A gallery that projects over the main floor in a theater or auditorium.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A stage or platform projecting from the wall of a building within or without, supported by columns, pillars, or consoles, and encompassed with a balustrade, railing, or parapet. Outer balconies are common before windows, and inner ones in ball-rooms, public halls, etc.
  2. n. In theaters, a gallery occupying various positions. In some theaters it is a raised tier of seats surrounding the parquette; in others it takes the place of the dress-circle; and in others still it is the gallery immediately behind or above the dress-circle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
  2. n. An accessible structure overlooking a stage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Arch.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement.
  2. n. A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
  2. n. a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

Etymologies

  1. From Italian balcone "balcony, floor-length window" from Old Italian balcone "scaffold", from Lombardic *balko, *balkon- ("beam") from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhelg'- (“beam, pile, prop”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho ("beam"), Old English balca ("beam, ridge"). More at balk. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian balcone, from Old Italian, scaffold, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Ha! No, seriously, I have great memories of a couple of dinners up there — and the balcony is a breathtaking place to watch a storm roll in. posted by Matthew @ 11: 47 AM”

    Archive 2006-12-01

  • “I'm right on what we call the balcony of the city," said Leal, the cafeteria owner.”

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  • “The basic format, of a woman seated on a balcony, is inspired by the Mona Lisa, and there's a watery landscape abutting Eleonora's left side, that recalls a popular metaphor, the "lake of the heart"; there's even a left-sided half-smile.”

    The Guardian: Bronzino's Medici portraits – review

  • “The balcony is small and narrow, but on this cold and foggy March morning it does provide asomber view of the frozen expanse of St. Croix river and thebridge connecting Minnesota and Wisconsin.”

    Waking Up in Stillwater « Biodork

  • “It is a balcony from a village home that is nothing like a classic terrace overlooking a garden.”

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  • “Many times a static balcony is simply not cost effective, confined by space or an available past option.”

    Fake Window – Bright Blind

  • “It's a warm spring here (27º Celsius right now) although this morning when I woke, since the balcony is still in shadow then, I left the house with a black cashmere sweater on.”

    Breakfast in Bed

  • “No balcony any longer, alas, but being invited in for a week on the coast to talk with other poet-translators about poetry ... well, not having a balcony is not exactly something to complain about.”

    Breakfast in Bed

  • “But me, well it's all my idea of heaven, I'm counting the days and my junior suite with private balcony is waiting for me.”

    50 entries from June 2007

  • “At 11: 00 pm on that September, 1910, President Porfirio Díaz stood on the main balcony of the National Palace, and once again rang the same bell Hidalgo had rung in Dolores.”

    'El Grito' - September 15 or 16?

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  • fbharjo Etymology: balaakhana from Persian balaa = above + khana = house, upperhouse Aug 30, 2009

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