Gallery

Found in thesaurus: audience, porch, room, corridor, balcony, passageway

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gallery
n. raised balcony-like area (in a theater, etc.); narrow covered walkway open on one or both sides; building in which artwork is exhibited; hall, room used for a particular purpose; general public

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Gallery
Gallery may refer to:

Buildings and spaces
  • Art gallery, exhibition in a museum or other public space
    • Art gallery, a retail art shop
  • Long gallery, an architectural element
  • A narrow balcony inside or outside of a building
    • Veranda, an architectural element
    • Minstrels' gallery, a balcony used by performing musicians
    • Observation deck, usually on the upper floors of a building, used to afford visitors a long-distance view
    • Gallery, in a theater or concert hall; see theater structure.
    • Gallery, in a church, courtroom, or legislative chamber; audience seating, often in a second-floor balcony
    • Production control room, in a UK television studio
  • Gallery, a horizontal passage in an underground mine
    • Counterscarp gallery, a passage built behind the back wall of the defensive ditch of a fort.
  • Audience or a group of spectators
    • Peanut gallery, a nickname for spectators occupying the cheapest seats

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gallery

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


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gallery
n. galerie; ochoz

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gallery
Rzecz. galeria (sztuki); galeria (miejsca dla publiczności); najwyższy balkon