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1. gallery
noun. ['ˈgælɝi'] a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.
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Etymology
- galerie (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Gallery
- vallery
- valery
- valerie
- salary
- mallory
- mallery
- calorie
- callery
Sentences with gallery
1. Noun, singular or mass
The only exception is when there is a gallery opening at the back wall.
Quotes about gallery
1. There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
- Thomas Frank
2. A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
- Robert Smithson
3. Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
- Bryant H. McGill
2. gallery
noun. ['ˈgælɝi'] spectators at a golf or tennis match.
Etymology
- galerie (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
3. gallery
noun. ['ˈgælɝi'] narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade.
Synonyms
Etymology
- galerie (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
4. gallery
noun. ['ˈgælɝi'] a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose.
Etymology
- galerie (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
5. gallery
noun. ['ˈgælɝi'] a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine.
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Antonyms
Etymology
- galerie (Old French (842-ca. 1400))