gallery
Other forms: galleries
A gallery is an area of a building that's usually long, narrow, and has a specific function. You might visit an art gallery to check out a row of paintings hung on its walls.
There are a few kinds of galleries, but the first is a part of a house or building that's unusually long and narrow. A gallery also has some sort of purpose: in a theater, a gallery is a place where additional seats are located. A gallery is also somewhere art is shown and sold. Art galleries can be one room of a larger place, a series of rooms, or a whole building devoted to art.
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a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
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narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnadetypes:amphitheater, amphitheatrea sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater)choir lofta gallery in a church occupied by the choirorgan lofta gallery occupied by a church organtype of:balconya platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
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a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)type of:corridoran enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
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a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose“shooting gallery”type of:rooman area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
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a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibitedsynonyms: art gallery, picture gallery
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a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a minetype of:passagewaya passage between rooms or between buildings
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spectators at a golf or tennis matchtype of:audiencea gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance
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