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GALLERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
Example:
they dug a drift parallel with the vein
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)
Domain category:
excavation; mining (the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
balcony (a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):
amphitheater; amphitheatre (a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater))
choir loft (a gallery in a church occupied by the choir)
organ loft (a gallery occupied by a church organ)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
corridor (an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
Example:
shooting gallery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
Synonyms:
art gallery; gallery; picture gallery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):
salon (gallery where works of art can be displayed)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
porch (a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gallery"):
lanai (a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Spectators at a golf or tennis match
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gallery" is a kind of...):
audience (a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance)
Context examples:
This could be a friend’s wedding, charity benefit, industry function or award show, cultural event or art gallery opening, designer fashion show or home-oriented Armory show, or a special dinner party.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The obligation of attendance, the formality, the restraint, the length of time—altogether it is a formidable thing, and what nobody likes; and if the good people who used to kneel and gape in that gallery could have foreseen that the time would ever come when men and women might lie another ten minutes in bed, when they woke with a headache, without danger of reprobation, because chapel was missed, they would have jumped with joy and envy.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
For an eternal second he stood in the midst of a portrait gallery, wherein she occupied the central place, while about her were limned many women, all to be weighed and measured by a fleeting glance, herself the unit of weight and measure.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had regained the gallery, and was just shutting the back-door behind me, when an accelerated hum warned me that the ladies were about to issue from their chambers.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yet soon after, it advanced nearer, and I could see the sides of it encompassed with several gradations of galleries, and stairs, at certain intervals, to descend from one to the other.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Redruth retreated from his place in the gallery and dropped into the boat, which we then brought round to the ship's counter, to be handier for Captain Smollett.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If I talked to Steerforth in his room, I heard her dress rustle in the little gallery outside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Returning through the large and lofty hall, they ascended a broad staircase of shining oak, which, after many flights and many landing-places, brought them upon a long, wide gallery.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
