Meaning

6 senses
  1. An intermediate floor or storey in between the main floors of a building; specifically, one that is directly above the ground floor which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, and so resembles a large balcony overlooking the ground floor; an entresol.

    On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine.

    Mezzanin, Empore, Galerie

    мезони́нmezonín

    мезоні́нmezonín

    intermediate floor just above the ground floor

  2. (broadly)An apartment, room, etc., on such an intermediate floor.

  3. (Canada, US)The lowest balcony in an auditorium, cinema, theatre, etc.; the dress circle.

    Loge

    first or lowest balcony

  4. (obsolete)Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.

  5. (obsolete)In full mezzanine window: a small window at the height of a mezzanine floor (sense 1.1) or an attic, used to light these floors.

  6. (obsolete)A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The caretaker's office is in the mezzanine.

    deDer Hausmeister hat sein Büro im Zwischengeschoß. — brauchinet

  2. There is a study on Mezzanine Floor level 2.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
intermediate floor:
Русский
By meaning 1
intermediate floor:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
intermediate floor:
lowest balcony in an auditorium, etc.:

Forms

plural: mezzanines
Singularmezzanine
Pluralmezzanines

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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