second balcony
- noun
- US
:
segundo balcón
- Although the seats were cheap, the sound was fantastic from the second balcony.
Examples
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The ushers directed us to our seats in the second balcony after we arrived late.
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I saw my first ballet, Swan Lake, with a fourth-grade teacher who wangled us free tickets to the second balcony.
Fiction book (1996) -
We had great views of the performance from the second balcony of the theater.
Synonyms
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4.0
The highest seats in a theatre, far from the stage
The highest seats in a theater balcony that are far from the stage
Cheap seats high in the back of a theater
Antonyms
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1.3
The first row of seats nearest the stage or screen that lets you see the action clearly
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward composition of 'second' (ordinal position) + 'balcony' (theatre platform), so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to the balcony in the second position (typically higher or further back). This ordinal+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, making the MWE immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The name second balcony comes from old theatres that had more than one balcony. The second was the highest, most distant balcony, so people there sat far from the stage and paid less, and today the term means 'the upper, back seating area with cheaper tickets'.