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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)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
