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Noun: gallery  ga-lu-ree
  1. Spectators at a golf or tennis match
     
  2. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
    - veranda, verandah
     
  3. A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
    - art gallery, picture gallery
     
  4. A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
    "shooting gallery"
     
  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. (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
    "they dug a gallery parallel with the vein";
    - drift, heading

Derived forms: galleries

Type of: audience, balcony, corridor, passageway, porch, room

Encyclopedia: Gallery, Robert