Definitions for gallery
ˈgæl ə ri, ˈgæl rigalle·ry

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gallerynoun

   spectators at a golf or tennis match

2. veranda, verandah, gallerynoun

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

3. gallery, art gallery, picture gallerynoun

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

4. gallerynoun

   a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

   "shooting gallery"

5. gallerynoun

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

6. gallerynoun

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

7. drift, heading, gallerynoun

   a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

   "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"

Wiktionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. gallerynoun

   An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.

2. gallerynoun

   An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.

3. gallerynoun

   Uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.

4. gallerynoun

   A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side

5. gallerynoun

   as a whole, the spectators of an event.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Galleryadjective

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

2. Galleryadjective

   a room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc

   Etymology: [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.]

3. Galleryadjective

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

4. Galleryadjective

   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

   Etymology: [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.]

5. Galleryadjective

   any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery

   Etymology: [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.]

6. Galleryadjective

   a working drift or level

   Etymology: [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.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gallery

   Gallery is a men's magazine begun by Montcalm Publishing in 1972. It is one of the more popular "skin" magazines that arose on the Playboy magazine pattern in the 1970s. Montcalm also published The Twilight Zone Magazine in the 1980s, apparently partly in imitation of Penthouse magazine's offshoot Omni. Gallery has long featured a "Girl Next Door" contest in which photographers submit pictures of amateur models From each group of monthly entries, one model winner is selected. At the end of the year, one is crowned "Girl Next Door of the Year" and awarded a cash prize of $25,000. The most famous winner is retired porn star Stacy Valentine; at the time of her selection she was Oklahoma housewife Stacy Baker. Montcalm Publishing went bankrupt, leaving many photographers and models empty handed; some were owed as much as $100,000. Gallery magazine was purchased by the Magna Publishing Group. The first issue under their ownership came out in July 2008.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gallery

   gal′ėr-i, n. a balcony surrounded by rails: a long passage: the upper floor of seats in a church or theatre: the persons occupying the gallery at a theatre: a room for the exhibition of works of art: (fort.) a covered passage cut through the earth or masonry: a level or drive in a mine.—adj. Gall′eried, furnished with, or arranged like, a gallery.—Play to the gallery, to play so as to win the applause of the least intelligent amongst the spectators. [O. Fr. galerie (It. galleria).]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gallery

   A balcony projecting from the admiral's or captain's cabin; it is usually decorated with a balustrade, and extends from one side of the ship to the other; the roof is formed by a sort of vault termed a cove, which is frequently ornamented with carving. (See STERN; also QUARTER-GALLERY.)

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gallery

   An underground passage, whether cut in the soil or built in masonry; it forms the communication between the inner and exterior works of a fortified place. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery. In military mines, galleries are the underground passages leading to and connecting the mine chambers. Scarp and counterscarp galleries are covered passages built in the scarp and counterscarp to give a flanking fire in the ditch.

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1. gallery

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Matched Categories

1. • Audience
   • Balcony
   • Corridor
   • Mining
   • Passageway
   • Porch
   • Room

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'gallery' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2333

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'gallery' in Nouns Frequency: #854

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1. allergy

2. largely

3. regally

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gallery in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gallery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of gallery in a Sentence

1. Patrick Cantlay:

   Even if you have 98 percent of the 10,000 people in the gallery pulling for you, the other 200 can cause problems, if those people have had enough to drink or feel emboldened enough to say something because they want to impress the girl they’re standing next to, then, yeah, like, you’re in trouble.

2. Bill Mutell:

   CEOs aren't there to have coffee in the cafeteria with employees and to yuk it up, it's easy for the gallery to criticize when in fact I'd be curious to see how they would have done things differently.

3. The Telegraph:

   He should be received with proper good manners, and as far as a speech is concerned ... he would speak where most other presidents have spoken – in the Royal Gallery.

4. Frank Kilbourn:

   We've got credible auction houses and a great gallery system and the world is now realizing that we've come of age, it's a great place to look at art and to buy art.

5. Julio Montaner:

   This vibrant part of the city became abandoned and then reoccupied by individuals who are predominantly poor and have very high rates of injection drug use, it's one gigantic shooting gallery.

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