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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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);
- Example: "he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery"

2. rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats;
[syn: second balcony, family circle, upper balcony, peanut gallery]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peanut gallery \Pea"nut gal"ler*y\ 1. The cheapest seats in a theater, being typically those farthest from the stage, as in the uppermost balcony. [PJC] 2. In a television show for children, the section where visiting children sit as guests during the performance. [PJC] 3. Hence: Any group of children, or the chidren in a group of people; as, let's have no noise from the peanut gallery. [Colloq.] [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

peanut gallery n 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); "he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery" 2: rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats [syn: second balcony, family circle, upper balcony, peanut gallery]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "peanut gallery": Texas tower, auditorium, balcony, beacon, belvedere, bleachers, box, box seat, bridge, conning tower, dress circle, fauteuil, gallery, gazebo, grandstand, lighthouse, loge, lookout, loophole, nigger heaven, observation post, observatory, orchestra, orchestra circle, outlook, overlook, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, peephole, pharos, pit, proscenium boxes, ringside, ringside seat, sighthole, stall, standing room, theatre stall, top gallery, tower, watchtower