peanut gallery

1. 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”

   Broaderpeople
2. 2.

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

   Synonymssecond balconyfamily circleupper balcony

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   Part ofbalcony

Questions about peanut gallery

What does peanut gallery mean?

peanut gallery means "(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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for peanut gallery?

Close synonyms include second balcony, family circle, upper balcony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peanut gallery a common word?

peanut gallery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.