different between balcony vs parterre

English

Etymology

From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from Lombardic *balk, *balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“beam, pile, prop”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“beam”), Old English balca (“beam, ridge”). More at balk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bælk?ni/

Noun

balcony (plural balconies)

1. (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
   • "The next day as the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray."—Book of Acts 10:9–13, The Message translation
2. An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.

Derived terms

• balconette
• balconette bra
• balconic
• balcony bra
• balconylike

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre (“on the ground”), from par (“on”) + terre (“ground”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p????t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: par?terre

Noun

parterre (plural parterres)

1. (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one.
2. (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds.
3. (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra.

   • That was Selwyn's first encounter with the Ruthvens. A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

   1. The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls.
   2. (Britain) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit.
4. (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class.
5. (US, New York) An apartment balcony.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r?t??.r?/
• Hyphenation: par?ter?re
• Rhymes: -??r?

Noun

parterre m or n (plural parterres or parterren)

1. ground floor

   Synonym: begane grond

2. parterre, flowerbed
3. parterre, level garden with flowerbeds

Derived terms

• parterretrap

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?]. Equivalent to par +? terre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.t??/
• Hyphenation: par?terre

Noun

parterre m (plural parterres)

1. part of a garden that is divided into flowerbeds
2. the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear
   1. (by extension) the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre
   2. (by analogy) an assembly or group of people

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French parterre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa??tere/, [pa??t?e.re]

Noun

parterre m (plural parterres)

1. Flowerbed