gallery Definition

gallery
noun galleries

1. A room or building used to display works of art.
2. A balcony along an inside upper wall, eg of a church or hall, providing extra seating or reserved for musicians, etc.

Example: minstrels' gallery
Thesaurus: spectators, onlookers, audience, public, attendance.
3a. The upper floor in a theatre, usually containing the cheapest seats;
3b. The part of the audience seated there.
4. A long narrow room or corridor.
5. An underground passage in a mine or cave.
6. A covered walkway open on one or both sides.

Thesaurus: arcade, walk, passage, veranda, porch, portico.
7. The spectators in the stand at a golf, tennis or other tournament.
8. In a TV studio: a soundproof room overlooking the action, for the director or lighting engineer.

Derivative: galleried

Having a gallery.

Made in the form of a gallery or arcade.

Idiom: play to the gallery

To seek mass approval or favour by appealing to popular taste.

Etymology: 15c: from French galerie, from Latin galeria a covered walkway.