different between balcon vs terrace

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Noun

balcon (plural balcons)

1. Obsolete form of balcony.

Anagrams

• Blacon, Blanco, blanco

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balcone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal.k??/

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. balcony

Derived terms

• avoir du monde au balcon

Descendants

• ? Danish: balkon
  • ? Greenlandic: balkonngi
• ? Dutch: balkon
• ? German: Balkon
• ? Polish: balkon
• ? Romanian: balcon

Further reading

• “balcon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin; possibly from Lombardic balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Venetian balcon.

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

1. window

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French balcon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?kon/

Noun

balcon n (plural balcoane)

1. (architecture) balcony

2. (slang) boob, tit

Declension

Venetian

Alternative forms

• balcón, barcon, barcón

Etymology

Borrowed from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“beam, pile, prop”). Compare Italian balcone.

Noun

balcon m (plural balconi) (Alternative plural: balcuni)

1. window
2. shutter

Synonyms

• finestra, fenestra

Zazaki

Alternative forms

• bancan

Etymology

Ultimately from Sanskrit ????? (va?gana).

Noun

balcon ?

1. eggplant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Noun

terrace (plural terraces)

1. A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
2. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
3. A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
4. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
5. (Britain, informal) A single house in such a group.
6. (in the plural, chiefly Britain) The standing area at a football ground.
7. (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.

Synonyms

• terrasse (Quebec)

Related terms

Translations

See also

• patio

Verb

terrace (third-person singular simple present terraces, present participle terracing, simple past and past participle terraced)

1. To provide something with a terrace.
2. To form something into a terrace.

Translations

Anagrams

• caterer, reacter, recrate, retrace