mezzanine
noun/ˈmezəniːn/
/ˈmezəniːn/
- a floor that is built between two floors of a building and is smaller than the other floors
- a bedroom on the mezzanine
- a mezzanine floor
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- (North American English) the first area of seats above the ground floor in a theatre; the first few rows of these seats see also dress circleTopics Film and theatrec2
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Italian mezzanino, diminutive of mezzano ‘middle’, from Latin medianus ‘median’.
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