balcony
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Noun (2)balconies
- an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditoriumType of structure, constructionKinds loge, mezzanineParts box, second balcony
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapetType of structure, constructionKinds galleryParts bannister, banister
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Translations
Noun structure extending from a building
- Spanish
- balcón
- French
- balcon
- German
- Balkon
- Italian
- balcone
- Portuguese
- sacada
- Turkish
- balkon
- Russian
- балко́н balkón
- Arabic
- شُرْفَة šurfa
- Chinese
- 阳台 yángtái
- Japanese
- バルコニー barukonī
31 more languages
- Dutch
- balkon
- Polish
- balkon
- Swedish
- balkong
- Greek
- μπαλκόνι balkóni
- Korean
- 발코니 balkoni
- Indonesian
- balkon
- Vietnamese
- ban công
- Hungarian
- erkély
- Portuguese (PT)
- varanda
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 陽臺 yángtái
- Albanian
- ballkon
- Catalan
- balcó
- Czech
- balkón
- Danish
- altan
- Esperanto
- balkono
- Estonian
- rõdu
- Finnish
- parveke
- Georgian
- აივანი aivani
- Hebrew
- מִרְפֶּסֶת mirpéset
- Icelandic
- svalir
- Latvian
- balkons
- Lithuanian
- balkonas
- Norwegian
- balkong
- Romanian
- balcon
- Scottish Gaelic
- for-uinneag
- Serbo-Croatian
- balkon
- Slovak
- balkón
- Slovenian
- balkon
- Swahili
- roshani
- Welsh
- balconi
- Yiddish
- באַלקן balkn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: It. balcone; cf. It. balco, palco, scaffold, fr. OHG. balcho, palcho, beam, G. balken. See Balk beam.
1. Architecture A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.
2. A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.
☞ “The accent has shifted from the second to the first syllable within these twenty years.” Smart (1836).
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54