Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small compartment, especially a box in a theater.
  • noun The front rows of the mezzanine in a theater.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of lodge.
  • noun A booth or stall.
  • noun The French name for a private box in a theater, used in English with the French pronunciation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A lodge; a habitation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A booth or stall.
  • noun The lodge of a concierge.
  • noun An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
  • noun An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
  • noun balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, covered walk, lodge; see lodge.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From French loge ("arbor, covered walk-way") from Frankish *laubja ("shelter"). Akin to Old High German. louba "porch, gallery" (German Laube "bower, arbor"), Old High German. loub "leaf, foliage", Old English lēaf "leaf, foliage". More at lobby, loggia, leaf.

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  • "...they were both going to the opera. Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and, ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.

    — Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

    February 17, 2022