GALLERY


Meaning of GALLERY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ gæləri ]

( galleries)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A gallery is a place that has permanent exhibitions of works of art in it.

...an art gallery.

...the National Gallery.

N-COUNT ; N-IN-NAMES

2.

A gallery is a privately owned building or room where people can look at and buy works of art.

The painting is in the gallery upstairs.

N-COUNT

3.

A gallery is an area high above the ground at the back or at the sides of a large room or hall.

A crowd already filled the gallery.

N-COUNT

4.

The gallery in a theatre or concert hall is an area high above the ground that usually contains the cheapest seats.

They had been forced to find cheap tickets in the gallery.

N-COUNT : usu the N in sing

If you play to the gallery , you do something in public in a way which you hope will impress people.

...but I must tell you that in my opinion you’re both now playing to the gallery.

PHRASE : V inflects

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