mezzanine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French mezzanine, from Italian mezzanino, from mezzano (“middle”), from Latin medianus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛzəˌniːn/
Noun
mezzanine (plural mezzanines)
- A secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building; entresol.
- On our way to the top floor, we stopped at the mezzanine.
- A small window used to light such a secondary floor.
- The lowest balcony in an auditorium.
- Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
- (theater) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
Translations
a secondary floor, in between the main floors of a building
additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level
a floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked
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Adjective
mezzanine (not comparable)
- (engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
- To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me(d).za.nin/, /mɛ(d).za.nin/
Descendants
- English: mezzanine
Further reading
- “mezzanine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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