gallery
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (7)
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)Synonyms: verandaverandah
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibitedSynonyms: art gallerypicture gallery
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose“shooting gallery”
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine“they dug a drift parallel with the vein”Synonyms: driftheading
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
5.(Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. [1913 Webster]
6.(Mining) A working drift or level. [1913 Webster]
Whispering gallery. See under Whispering. [1913 Webster]