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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A partial story between two main stories of a building.
  2. n. The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In architecture A story of diminished height introduced between two higher stories; an entresol. See cut under entresol
  2. n. A window less in height than in breadth; a window in an entresol.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A balcony in an auditorium.
  2. n. A sub-floor, in between main floors of a building.
  3. adj. Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Same as entresol.
  2. n. A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
  3. n. A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
  4. n. A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
  5. n. The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. first or lowest balcony
  2. n. intermediate floor just above the ground floor

Etymologies

  1. French, from Italian mezzanino, diminutive of mezzano, middle, from Latin mediānus, in the middle; see median.

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