PEANUT GALLERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peanut gallery mean? 

• PEANUT GALLERY (noun)
  The noun PEANUT GALLERY has 2 senses:

1. (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)

2. rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

  Familiarity information: PEANUT GALLERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEANUT GALLERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery

Hypernyms ("peanut gallery" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

family circle; peanut gallery; second balcony; upper balcony

Hypernyms ("peanut gallery" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Holonyms ("peanut gallery" is a part of...):

balcony (an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium)