gallery
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Pluralgalleries
Formsgalleries, gallerying, galleried
- 1A building or room where people can look at art and other important objects.
Like a big room where art is kept safe and put on show for everyone to see.
The new gallery downtown shows paintings by local artists.
We spent the afternoon walking through the city's biggest gallery.
Similarmuseum
- 2A shop where people buy, sell, and look at works of art.
Like a store, but instead of clothes or food, it sells paintings and sculptures.
She bought her first painting from a small gallery near the harbor.
The gallery takes a percentage from every artwork it sells.
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- 3A set of pictures or designs you can scroll through and look at on a screen.
Like a photo album on your phone that you can flip through.
Tap the gallery to find a photo for your profile.
The app's gallery has hundreds of free backgrounds.
Similarcollection, library, album
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- 4The highest level of seats in a theater, high above the stage.
Like the top row of seats at a stadium, far from the action but cheaper.
We bought cheap seats up in the gallery.
From the gallery you can see the whole stage below.
Similarbalcony
- 5All the people watching an event, taken as a group.
Like the crowd at a game, all watching together.
The gallery clapped as the golfer sank the long putt.
A huge gallery followed the leaders around the course.
Similaraudience, crowd, spectators, onlookers
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- 6A long covered walkway, often running along the outside wall of a building.
Like a long porch with a roof, running along the side of a building.
They strolled along the shaded gallery beside the courtyard.
The old house had a wooden gallery wrapping around the upper floor.
Similararcade, colonnade, loggia, walkway
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- 7The area at the back of a courtroom where members of the public can sit and watch a trial.
Like the rows of seats where an audience watches, but inside a courtroom.
Reporters filled the gallery during the famous trial.
The judge cleared the gallery when the crowd grew noisy.
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- 11The room where a TV show is controlled and put together while it is being made.
Like the place where people sit to control everything during a show.
The director sat in the gallery and chose which camera to use.
From the gallery, the team watched every screen at once.
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- 13A part of a light fixture that helps hold the fixture together and supports the cover over the bulb.
Like the metal ring that holds a lampshade onto a lamp.
The gallery holds the glass shade in place below the bulb.
He unscrewed the gallery to replace the cracked diffuser.
- 14A small rim sticking out from a monocle that helps keep it held in the eye.
Like a small edge that grips and holds something in place.
The gallery on his monocle kept it from slipping out.
A worn gallery made the monocle hard to keep in place.
- 15Short form of gallery forest. Used to mean a strip of trees growing along a river.
The river was bordered by a thick gallery on both banks.
Monkeys moved through the gallery that lined the stream.
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- 16To show off, especially to please the people who are watching.
Like a kid doing tricks to get everyone to look at them.
He loves to gallery whenever a crowd gathers.
Stop trying to gallery and just play the game.
Similargrandstand, showboat, posture
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Origin
It came through Middle English and Old French from Medieval Latin galeria, meaning "gallery." Its earlier origin is unknown.