Gallery

['gæl(ə)rɪ] or ['gæləri]

Definition

(noun.) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.

(noun.) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).

(noun.) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; 'shooting gallery'.

(noun.) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.

(noun.) spectators at a golf or tennis match.

Typed by Jody--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

(a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

(a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.

(a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.

(a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.

(a.) A working drift or level.

Checker: Susie

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Corridor, passage.[2]. Collection of works of art.

Typed by Anton

Definition

n. a balcony surrounded by rails: a long passage: the upper floor of seats in a church or theatre: the persons occupying the gallery at a theatre: a room for the exhibition of works of art: (fort.) a covered passage cut through the earth or masonry: a level or drive in a mine.—adj. Gall′eried furnished with or arranged like a gallery.—Play to the gallery to play so as to win the applause of the least intelligent amongst the spectators.

Typist: Shelby

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