n. (pl. -ies)
1. a room or building for showing works of art.
2 a balcony, esp. a platform projecting from the inner wall of a church, hall, etc., providing extra room for spectators etc. or reserved for musicians etc. (minstrels' gallery).
3 a the highest balcony in a theatre. b its occupants.
4 a a covered space for walking in, partly open at the side; a portico or colonnade. b a long narrow passage in the thickness of a wall or supported on corbels, open towards the interior of the building.
5 a long narrow room, passage, or corridor.
6 Mil. & Mining a horizontal underground passage.
7 a group of spectators at a golf-match etc.
Phrases and idioms:
play to the gallery seek to win approval by appealing to popular taste.
Derivatives:
galleried adj.
Etymology: F galerie f. It. galleria f. med.L galeria