gallery

English Online Dictionary. What means gallery‎? What does gallery mean?

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæləɹi/; enPR: gălˈ -ə-rē
• Hyphenation: gal‧le‧ry
• Rhymes: -æləɹi

Noun

gallery (plural galleries)

2. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.

   Hyponym: art gallery

   Coordinate term: museum

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

   Coordinate term: gallerist's

   Near-synonyms: art dealer's, dealer's

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

   Hyponym: peanut gallery

8. (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.

   Hyponym: peanut gallery
10. (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
12. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.

14. (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

16. (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.

18. (mining) A level or drive in a mine.

20. (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
22. (television) The production control room.
24. 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

    Comeronyms: diffuser, shade, bulb, wiring

26. A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.

    Holonym: monocle

    Comeronyms: ring, lens

28. (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.

30. Ellipsis of gallery forest.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gallerist

Translations

Verb

gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off.

References

Further reading

• “gallery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “gallery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “gallery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• largely, allergy, regally, Allgyer