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What's The Definition Of Gallery?
[n] (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
[n] narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade [n] a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) [n] a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery" [n] a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited [n] a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) [n] spectators at a golf or tennis match Synonyms | Synonyms for Gallery: art gallery | drift | heading | picture gallery | veranda | verandah Related Terms | Find terms related to Gallery: abri | access | aisle | alley | ambulatory | amphitheater | aperture | approach trench | arcade | areaway | arena | art gallery | artery | assembly hall | atelier | audience | auditorium | auditory | avenue | balcony | band | beacon | bed | bedding | belt | belvedere | bleachers | box | box seat | breezeway | bridge | British Museum | bunker | catafalque | channel | chapel | cloister | colonnade | communication | communication trench | concert hall | conduit | congregation | connection | conning tower | convention hall | corridor | couche | countermine | coupure | course | covered way | curatorship | dais | dance hall | deck | defile | display room | ditch | double sap | dress circle | dugout | emplacement | entrenchment | estrade | exhibition hall | exhibition room | exit | fauteuil | ferry | fire trench | floor | flying sap | ford | fortified tunnel | fosse | foxhole | gazebo | grandstand | groundling | Guggenheim Museum | hall | hallway | heliport | Hermitage | house | hustings | inlet | interchange | intersection | junction | lanai | landing | landing pad | landing stage | lane | launching pad | layer | lecture hall | ledge | level | lighthouse | loge | loggia | lookout | loophole | Louvre | measures | meetinghouse | Metropolitan Museum | mine | moat | museology | museum | music hall | National Gallery | nigger heaven | observation post | observatory | opening | opera house | orchestra | orchestra circle | outlet | outlook | overlayer | overlook | overpass | overstory | paradise | parallel | parquet | parquet circle | parterre | pass | passage | passageway | patio | peanut gallery | peephole | pergola | peristyle | pharos | piazza | picture gallery | pinacotheca | pit | platform | podium | porch | portico | Prado | proscenium boxes | pulpit | railroad tunnel | Rijksmuseum | ringside | ringside seat | rostrum | salon | sap | seam | shelf | showroom | sighthole | sleeping porch | slit trench | soapbox | solarium | spectator | stadium | stage | stall | standing room | step | step terrace | stoop | story | stratum | studio | stump | substratum | sun porch | superstratum | Tate Gallery | terrace | Texas tower | theater | theatre stall | thickness | tier | top gallery | topsoil | tower | traject | trajet | trench | tribunal | tribune | tunnel | Uffizi | underlayer | underpass | understory | understratum | veranda | watchtower | zone See Also | amphitheater | amphitheatre | audience | balcony | choir loft | corridor | lanai | organ loft | passageway | porch | room | salon Gallery In Webster's Dictionary \Gal"ler*y\, n.; 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}, a.]
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. (Naut.) 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.
5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as
well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a
defensive gallery.
6. (Mining) A working drift or level.
{Whispering gallery}. See under {Whispering}.
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