How do the British pronounce mezzanine?
What does Mezzanine mean?
1 : a low-ceilinged story between two main stories of a building especially : an intermediate story that projects in the form of a balcony. 2a : the lowest balcony in a theater.
How do I spell mezzanine?
noun
- Also called: mezzanine floor, entresol an intermediate storey, esp a low one between the ground and first floor of a building.
- theatre, US and Canadian the first balcony.
- theatre, British a room or floor beneath the stage.
Where is the word mezzanine from?
mezzanine (n.)
1711, “a low story between two higher ones in a building,” from French mezzanine (17c.), from Italian mezzanino, from mezzano “middle,” from Latin medianus “of the middle,” from medius (from PIE root *medhyo- “middle”). Sense of “lowest balcony in a theater” recorded by 1913.