BALCONY

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("balcony" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Meronyms (parts of "balcony"):

balusters; balustrade; banister; bannister; handrail (a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "balcony"):

gallery (narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("balcony" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Meronyms (parts of "balcony"):

box; loge (private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance)

family circle; peanut gallery; second balcony; upper balcony (rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "balcony"):

loge (balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine)

first balcony; mezzanine (first or lowest balcony)

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Context examples:

Bending over the balcony, I was about to murmur 'Mon ange'—in a tone, of course, which should be audible to the ear of love alone—when a figure jumped from the carriage after her; cloaked also; but that was a spurred heel which had rung on the pavement, and that was a hatted head which now passed under the arched porte cochere of the hotel.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.