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   gallery

   /ˈɡal(ə)ri/

   noun

   • 1. a room or building for the display or sale of works of art: "an art gallery" Similar exhibition roomdisplay roomart gallerymuseum
   • ▪ a collection of pictures: "an extensive gallery of colour photographs"
   • 2. a balcony or upper floor projecting from an interior back or side wall of a hall or church, providing space for an audience or musicians: "in the minstrels' gallery, a string orchestra plays themes from film soundtracks"
   • ▪ the highest balcony in a theatre, containing the cheapest seats. Similar balconycircleupper circleinformal:gods
   • ▪ a group of spectators, especially those at a golf tournament: "he lashed a two-iron on to the green, bringing gasps from the gallery"
   • 3. a long room or passage, typically one that is partly open at the side to form a portico or colonnade. Similar passagepassagewaycorridorhallhallwaywalkwayarcade
   • ▪ a horizontal underground passage, especially in a mine: "long underground galleries of 3 km or more made it possible to mine under the sea"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in gallery (sense 3)): via Old French from Italian galleria ‘gallery’, formerly also ‘church porch’, from medieval Latin galeria, perhaps an alteration of galilea (see galilee).

   Derivatives

   • 1. galleried adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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