/mez"euh neen', mez'euh neen"/ , n.
1. the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater.
2. a low story between two other stories of greater height in a building, esp. when the low story and the one beneath it form part of one composition; an entresol.
[ 1705-15; mezzanino, equiv. to mezzan ( o ) middle ( medianus MEDIAN) + -ino dim. suffix ]