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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
balcony
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
private
▪ All bedrooms have a private bathroom and balcony.
▪ There was a private balcony that overlooked a wide bend in the river that runs through Minsk.
▪ The comfortable, traditionally furnished bedrooms all have a private balcony overlooking Positano.
▪ All the rooms at the Yahsi Beach are of a good size and have private facilities and balconies.
▪ It has rooms with private facilities and balconies.
▪ Bedrooms are comfortably furnished, predominantly in wood, and have private bathrooms and balconies.
▪ The apartments are comfortable and spacious with kitchenette, private bathroom and balcony and sleep 2, 3 or 4.
▪ The comfortable bedrooms all have private bathrooms and balconies.
small
▪ Twin rooms have mini-bar and small balcony and some have a side sea view.
▪ Bedrooms all have air-conditioning, hair dryer, small balcony and side sea view.
▪ The twin bedrooms have the benefit of a small balcony with lovely views to the coast.
▪ Her suite of rooms was cool and restful and there was a small balcony beyond the bedroom window.
wooden
▪ We were served trout plucked from the river specially for us, under an awning on a wooden balcony overhanging the water.
▪ But the best place to ride on this ten-hour trip to Kuala Lumpur is on the wooden balcony between the coaches.
▪ The Dorfwirt is a distinctive hotel with carved wooden balconies, and the peaceful atmosphere is totally in keeping with this relaxing resort.
▪ A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
▪ It was a great slab-sided craft with lots of wooden balconies and curtained windows.
■ VERB
sit
▪ Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it.
▪ She poured herself more brandy and sat on the balcony, invisible against the dark room.
▪ While Ludovico was playing tennis, she sat on the balcony and wrote Nora a letter.
▪ Together they sat by the balcony overlooking avenue Foch and cried in each other's arms until the early hours.
▪ Every morning he rose early and sat on the balcony in the cool air.
stand
▪ He was standing by the balcony.
▪ He stood on the balcony with his coffee.
▪ Nader Nadirpur stood by the balcony window looking out over the avenue.
▪ Luke was standing outside on the balcony, and once again she found herself looking at his back.
▪ Several, standing on the balcony in full view of the crowd, taunted their enemies below.
▪ I stand on the balcony, sniffing the dawn air.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All bedrooms are twin with private bathroom; some with a balcony.
▪ Karen risked a glance over the balcony wall.
▪ One of his neighbours finds water dripping from the balcony above along her ceiling and out near her electric fire.
▪ Room with garden view and balcony £8.25.
▪ She took it out to the balcony to drink it and think.
▪ The boiler burst and the balcony was declared unsafe.
▪ The theater on the $ 320 million vessel was designed in the style of an outdoor amphitheater, with cantilevered balconies.
▪ The twin bedded rooms have private shower-rooms, and some have a balcony.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balcony

Balcony \Bal"co*ny\ (b[a^]l"k[-o]*n[y^]; 277), n.; pl. Balconies (b[a^]l"k[-o]*n[i^]z). [It. balcone; cf. It. balco, palco, scaffold, fr. OHG. balcho, palcho, beam, G. balken. See Balk beam.]

  1. (Arch.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

  2. A projecting gallery once common at the stern of large ships.

    Note: ``The accent has shifted from the second to the first syllable within these twenty years.''
    --Smart (1836).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
balcony

1610s, from Italian balcone, from balco "scaffold," from a Germanic source (perhaps Langobardic *balko- "beam," cognate with Old English balca "beam, ridge;" see balk (n.)) + Italian augmentative suffix -one. Till c.1825, regularly accented on the second syllable.

Wiktionary
balcony

n. 1 An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window. 2 An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.

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WordNet
balcony

  1. n. an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium

  2. a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Wikipedia
Balcony

A balcony (from , scaffold; cf. Old High German balcho, beam, balk; probably cognate with Persian term بالكانه bālkāneh or its older variant پالكانه pālkāneh;) is a platform projecting from the wall of a building, supported by columns or console brackets, and enclosed with a balustrade, usually above the ground floor.

Usage examples of "balcony".

San Francisco, Conrad Aiken, stood looking out over yet another tent city, this one in the Civic Center Park, directly below where he stood partially hidden behind the flags of the United States and of California on the ceremonial balcony area over the magnificently carved double-doorways of City Hall.

The significance of the balcony table occurred to Alec almost too late.

While Seregil finished dressing, he wandered out onto the bedroom balcony to watch Alec at his morning shooting in the garden.

In the shadow of a balcony a girl barbarian of East Almery embraced a man blackened and in leather harness as a Deodand of the forest.

Il Terrazzo Antico was a two-story restaurant with glassed-in balconies.

When he saw Azar standing on the balcony in the moonlight, her hands raised to the heavens, a sharp stab of pain struck him.

Belize, with scraggly, narrow streets and romantic houses with protruding balconies, brightly painted doorways, and every window as becrossed with iron bars as if it were a jail.

I answered her to the effect that the balcony was always at her service, and that since it was still early I begged their permission to put on my dressing-gown and to keep them company.

Twenty yards beyond the gates was the villa itself, a rambling old-fashioned Edwardian building much behung with balconies.

Abruptly she remembered he had not told her his name, and she opened her mouth to ask, but in the instant before she spoke the birdman took Azhure s arm and led her towards the first of the stairwells that twisted up into the heights of the tower, sundry balconies and chambers opening off it.

Lionkeep, the afternoon sun beat down on the bricked windows and barred balconies, just as it had done for years.

There were no windows, only bricked up spaces where glass had once been, and all the balconies had been torn down, so that only their rubbled remains lay at the base of the wall.

The start was followed by a shout, which passed swiftly along the canal, and an eager agitation of heads that went from balcony to balcony, till the sympathetic movement was communicated to the grave load under which the Bucentaur labored.

The winding alleys and small streets of Busk were packed with people, with the rest of the town seemingly out on their balconies, drinking and eating and waving and gossiping.

The cousin came up to us, and Don Diego, after making a few remarks, left us on the balcony, wishing us a good night.