Mezzanine

Quick meaning: Mezzanine is a noun meaning An apartment, room, etc., on such an intermediate floor.

Meaning

An apartment, room, etc., on such an intermediate floor.

More Meanings

1. The lowest balcony in an auditorium, cinema, theatre, etc.; the dress circle.
2. Additional flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
3. 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.
4. (theater, obsolete) A floor under the stage, from which contrivances such as traps are worked.
5. (engineering) Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
6. (banking, business) Characteristic of or relating to high-interest loans which have no collateral, and are regarded as intermediate in nature, ranking above equity but below secured loans.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

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

To make interconnections easier, we added a mezzanine PCB.

[W]ater closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face of door: […]

On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.

Word Forms

• mezzanines
• mezzanining
• mezzanined

Related Words

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