GALLERY
\ɡˈaləɹi], \ɡˈaləɹi], \ɡ_ˈa_l_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of GALLERY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
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spectators at a golf or tennis match
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narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
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a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
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a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
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a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
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a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
By Princeton University
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a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
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spectators at a golf or tennis match
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narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
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a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
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a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
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a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
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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.
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Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
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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.
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Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A long narrow hall, or place for walking; the upper seats of a theater, church, assembly room, etc.; the occupants of such parts of a building; a building, or room, used for the exhibition of works of art, etc.; a covered passage in a work for defense or for communication; a balcony.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A balcony surrounded by rails: a long passage: the upper floor of seats in a church or theatre: a room for the exhibition of works of art: (fort.) a covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An elevated floor, commonly furnished with seats, along the side of an audience room.
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A corridor; a place for the display of statues, paintings, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A long and narrow corridor connecting passage-way;—any apartment whose length exceeds its breadth, or a succession of such for the exhibition of works of art; hence, also, a collection of paintings, sculptures, &c.;—a long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of the interior of a building, and supported by brackets or columns;—a long portico with columns on one side;—the upper floor of a theatre, church, hall, &c; the seats in such;—an ornamental garden walk lined with trees.
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