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Definition of Gallery
1. Noun. Spectators at a golf or tennis match.
2. Noun. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed).
3. Noun. A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.
4. Noun. A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose. "Shooting gallery"
5. Noun. A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns).
6. Noun. Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.
7. Noun. A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine. "They dug a drift parallel with the vein"
Category relationships: Excavation, Mining
Generic synonyms: Passageway
Derivative terms: Drive
Definition of Gallery
1. n. 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.
Definition of Gallery
1. Noun. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art. ¹
2. Noun. An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art. ¹
3. Noun. Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium. ¹
4. Noun. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side ¹
5. Noun. as a whole, the spectators of an event. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gallery
1. to provide with a long covered area [v -LERIED, -LERYING, -LERIES]
Medical Definition of Gallery
1.
Pl Galleries . [F. Galerie, It. Galleria, fr. LL. Galeria gallery, perh. Orig, a festal hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. Galerie a rejoicing, fr. Galer to rejoice. Cf. Gallant.
1. 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.
2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
3. 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.
4. A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
5. Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallery
Literary usage of Gallery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"FROM gallery TO gallery. through a tunnel about half a mile long if you prefer
it, or you may take the quicker plan of shooting like a dart down a shaft, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"Annual Report of the Director of the National gallery to the Treasury, for the
year 1885 ... The Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures in the National gallery. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"By Paolo Veranes*, Turin gallery ; canvas, H. 10 ft. 4 in. x 14 ft. 9 in.
The table spread in the portico of a house of classic architecture, ..."
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