galleries
- 1Plural of gallery.
The museum's upper galleries display paintings from the Renaissance.
Several galleries opened new exhibits across the district this spring.
Note
A regular plural: the final -y becomes -ies after a consonant, as in categories and batteries. It carries every sense of gallery: museum rooms, dealers' showrooms, the high seating tiers of a theater, the public benches of a courtroom, arcaded promenades. The collective sense of spectators fits it least, since that meaning already names a whole crowd; galleries there would mean several separate audiences.
galleries is a form of gallery
gallery, noun: A building, room, or institution for displaying and preserving important objects, especially works of art. Full entry
- Forms
- gallerygalleries plural
- Spelling
- gallery → galleries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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