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Webster 1913 Edition


Balcon

Bal′con

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Noun.
A balcony.
[Obs.]
Pepys.

Definition 2024


balcon

balcon

See also: balcón

English

Noun

balcon (plural balcons)

  1. Obsolete form of balcony.
    • 1665 June 1, Pepys, Samuel, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 5, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, pages 33–34:
      That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr. Cade’s stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &c., and the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a taverne.

French

Pronunciation

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

  1. balcony

Derived terms


Friulian

Etymology

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

Noun

balcon m (plural balcons)

  1. window

Romanian

Etymology

From French balcon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /balˈkon/

Noun

balcon n (plural balcoane)

  1. balcony
    El stă pe balcon.
    He is sitting on the balcony.
  2. (slang) boob, tit
    Are niște balcoane imense!
    She has huge tits!

Declension


Venetian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from Lombardic balko, from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (beam, pile, prop). Compare Italian balcone.

Noun

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

  1. window
  2. shutter

Synonyms