Mezzanine

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  • noun. A partial story between two main stories of a building.
  • noun. The lowest balcony in a theater or the first few rows of that balcony.
  • adjective. Of or relating to securities granting a claim on interest or assets that is subordinate to that of secured and senior debt but above that of equity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In architecture A story of diminished height introduced between two higher stories; an entresol. See cut under entresol
  • noun. A window less in height than in breadth; a window in an entresol.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Same as entresol.
  • noun. A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
  • noun. A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
  • noun. A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
  • noun. The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A balcony in an auditorium.
  • noun. A sub-floor, in between main floors of a building.
  • adjective. Fulfilling an intermediate or secondary function.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. first or lowest balcony
  • noun. intermediate floor just above the ground floor
  • Word Usage
    "Now we weren't really a venture capital company so much as we were at that time called mezzanine financing."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    balcony  floor  level  storey  story  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    variant
    entresol