gallery

1. 1.

   spectators at a golf or tennis match

   Broaderaudience
2. 2.

   a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

   Synonymsverandaverandah

   Broaderporch

   Narrowerlanai
3. 3.

   a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

   Synonymsart gallerypicture gallery

   Broaderroom

   Narrowersalon
4. 4.

   a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

   “shooting gallery”

   Broaderroom
5. 5.

   a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)

   Broadercorridor
6. 6.

   narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade

   Broaderbalcony

   Narroweramphitheaterchoir loftorgan loft
7. 7.

   a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine

   “they dug a drift parallel with the vein”

   Synonymsdriftheading

   Broaderpassageway

   mining

Other forms of gallery

plural

galleries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gallery

What does gallery mean?

gallery means "spectators at a golf or tennis match". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gallery?

gallery has 3 syllables: gal-le-ry. The stress falls on "gal". In IPA it is /ˈɡælɚi/.

What is another word for gallery?

Close synonyms include veranda, verandah, art gallery, picture gallery, drift. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gallery a common word?

gallery is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.