Word Direct Answers

What does "gallery" mean?

Gallery: A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
  2. 3.(Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern galery or quarter gallry, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
  3. 4.(Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive galery.
  4. 5.(Mining) A working drift or level. Whispering gallery. See under Whispering.

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