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Gallery
Definitions
- 1 A surname from Irish.
- 1 An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
"In the gallery are displayed genuine artifacts dug up from the site, and in the gift shop you can buy a replica as a souvenir."
- 2 a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine wordnet
- 3 An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
"Near-synonyms: art dealer's, dealer's"
- 4 narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade wordnet
- 5 The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
"We could afford the less expensive seats in the gallery."
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- 6 a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) wordnet
- 7 The spectators at an event, collectively. broadly, metonymically
"The politician was clearly appealing to the gallery"
- 8 a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose wordnet
- 9 The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
"appealing to the gallery"
- 10 a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited wordnet
- 11 A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
"elegant galleries looking out onto manicured gardens"
- 12 a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) wordnet
- 13 A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
"a gallery of image thumbnails"
- 14 spectators at a golf or tennis match wordnet
- 15 A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
"the galleries of the fort"
- 16 A level or drive in a mine.
"the lower galleries"
- 17 A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
"the main gallery"
- 18 The production control room.
- 19 A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
"Holonyms: light fixture, light, lamp, fixture"
- 20 A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
"Holonym: monocle"
- 21 The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
"beetle gallery"
- 22 Ellipsis of gallery forest. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 To show off. Trinidad-and-Tobago
Etymology
From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.
From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.
Reduced form of Irish Mac Giolla Riabhaigh (“son of the brindled lad”), the same source of McElrath.
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