GALLERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gallery mean? 

• GALLERY (noun)
  The noun GALLERY has 7 senses:

1. spectators at a golf or tennis match

2. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

3. a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

4. a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

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

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

7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

  Familiarity information: GALLERY used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALLERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spectators at a golf or tennis match

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gallery; veranda; verandah

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

porch (a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):

lanai (a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

art gallery; gallery; picture gallery

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):

salon (gallery where works of art can be displayed)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

shooting gallery

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

corridor (an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

balcony (a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):

amphitheater; amphitheatre (a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater))

choir loft (a gallery in a church occupied by the choir)

organ loft (a gallery occupied by a church organ)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

drift; gallery; heading

Context example:

they dug a drift parallel with the vein

Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):

passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)

Domain category:

excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)

 Context examples 

I told her stories as long as she would listen to them; and then for a change I took her out into the gallery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The island being then hovering over a mountain about two miles from it, I was let down from the lowest gallery, in the same manner as I had been taken up.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“Oh, put me on the rim of your hat; that will be a nice gallery for me; I can walk about there and see the country as we go along.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and a mattress for protection.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Town is very pleasant just now, and we go a good deal to picture-galleries and for walks and rides in the park.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Peggotty is ready to go to church, intending to behold the ceremony from the gallery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The trip was like riding through a long picture gallery, full of lovely landscapes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They had reached the end of the gallery, and with tears of shame she ran off to her own room.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Indeed, it became evident to us as soon as we had taken our seats that a youthful and even boyish spirit was abroad in the gallery and the back portions of the hall.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)