gallery
[noun]
Synonyms: museum

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

gal‧le‧ry W3 /ˈɡæləri/ noun (plural galleries) [countable]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: galeria, perhaps from galilaea 'small room for praying in inside a church', probably from Galilaea 'Galilee', area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught]

1.
a) a large building where people can see famous pieces of art:
an exhibition of African art at the Hayward Gallery
b) a small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of art

2.
a) an upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc:
the public gallery in Congress
in the gallery
We could only afford seats up in the gallery.
b) the gallery the people sitting in a gallery

3. play to the gallery to do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular

4. a level passage under the ground in a mine or cave
⇒ press gallery, shooting gallery

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

gallery
noun
I. for art
ADJ. art, exhibition, picture, portrait | commercial, private, public | national He offered ten major paintings to start a national gallery of modern British art.
VERB + GALLERY go to, visit
GALLERY + VERB exhibit sth, show sth Some of his work has been exhibited by local art galleries.
specialize in sth a gallery specializing in ceramics
close, open
GALLERY + NOUN space The extension will provide 600 square metres of new gallery space.
PREP. at a/the ~ The painting is now on display at the National Gallery in London.
in a/the ~ There were very few people in the gallery.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

gallery
II. in a hall
ADJ. long, wide | first-floor, upper | public The packed public gallery at Teesside Crown Court erupted in a roar of approval.
PREP. in a/the ~ I found myself in a wide gallery looking down on the floor below.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

gallery

an art gallery
a guide to the city's museums and art galleries
a picture/portrait gallery
The picture gallery is full of treasures.
a private gallery (=owned by a private person)
The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.
the national gallery (=owned by the country)
Edinburgh has three national galleries.
visit/go to a gallery
The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
a painting hangs in a gallery
Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a gallery is showing/exhibiting something
The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
exhibit something in/at a gallery
It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.
gallery space (=area for displaying art )
She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

gallery
ˈɡælərɪ
See: play to the gallery

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