balcony

noun, plural bal·co·nies.

1. a balustraded or railed elevated platform projecting from the wall of a building.
2. a gallery in a theater.

noun plural -nies

1. a platform projecting from the wall of a building with a balustrade or railing along its outer edge, often with access from a door or window
2. a gallery in a theatre or auditorium, above the dress circle
3. US and Canadian any circle or gallery in a theatre or auditorium including the dress circle

n.

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