1. Adjective
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. Adjective
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. Adjective
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. Adjective
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.
5. Adjective
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
6. Adjective
A working drift or level.
7. Noun
narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
8. Noun
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
9. Noun
a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
10. Noun
a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
Vocabulary classified under Engineering
11. Noun
a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
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