gallery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun spectators at a golf or tennis match
  2. noun a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
    veranda; verandah.
  3. noun a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
    art gallery; picture gallery.
  4. noun a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
    • shooting gallery
  5. noun a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
  6. noun narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
  7. noun a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
    drift; heading.
    • they dug a drift parallel with the vein

WordNet

Gal"ler*y noun
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.
Wordforms
plural Galleries
Definitions
  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.
  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.
  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.
  4. (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
  5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.
  6. (Mining) A working drift or level.

Webster 1913