1. gallery - Noun
2. gallery - Adjective
3. gallery - Verb
4. Gallery - Proper noun
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
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.
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
A working drift or level.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. Thomas Babington Macaulay
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery. Thom Gunn
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. Alexis de Tocqueville
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all. Thomas Carlyle
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes. Ayn Rand