whispering gallery

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   a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points

   Synonymswhispering dome

   Broaderdome

Questions about whispering gallery

What does whispering gallery mean?

whispering gallery means "a space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points".

What is another word for whispering gallery?

Close synonyms include whispering dome. 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 whispering gallery a common word?

whispering gallery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.