parterre

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: par=terre

CIDE DICTIONARY

parterre, n. [F., fr. par on, by (L. per) + terre earth, ground, L. terra. See Terrace.].

•  An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.  [1913 Webster]
•  The pit of a theater; the parquet.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parterre, n.
1 a level space in a garden occupied by flower-beds arranged formally.
2 US the ground floor of a theatre auditorium, esp. the pit overhung by balconies.

Etymology

F, = par terre on the ground

THESAURUS

parterre

auditorium, balcony, billiard table, bowling green, box, box seat, dead flat, dead level, dress circle, earth, esplanade, fauteuil, flat, flatland, floor, gallery, ground, homaloid, horizontal, horizontal axis, horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal plane, horizontal projection, ledge, level, level line, level plane, loge, mean sea level, nigger heaven, orchestra, orchestra circle, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, peanut gallery, pit, plain, plane, platform, prairie, proscenium boxes, sea level, sea of grass, stall, standing room, steppe, table, terrace, theatre stall, water level

ROGET THESAURUS

parterre

Horizontality

N horizontality, flatness, level, plane, stratum, dead level, dead flat, level plane, recumbency, lying down, reclination, decumbence, decumbency, discumbency, proneness, accubation, supination, resupination, prostration, azimuth, plain, floor, platform, bowling green, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, billiard table, terrace, estrade, esplanade, parterre, table land, plateau, ledge, butte, mesa (plain), level, spirit level, horizontal, level, even, plane, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a bowling green, alluvial, calm, calm as a mill pond, smooth, smooth as glass, recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent, lying, prone, supine, couchant, jacent, prostrate, recubant, horizontally, on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.