gallery


gallery

noun

Definition of GALLERY

1
a building or part of a building in which objects of interest are displayed <visited an array of art galleries while on vacation>
Synonyms gallery, salon
2
a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building <the guest rooms in the east wing rooms open up onto a long windowed gallery>
Southern & Midland
a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building <a big old house with a wraparound gallery just made for a line of rocking chairs>
Synonyms gallery [Southern & Midland], lanai, piazza [dialect], stoop, veranda (or verandah)
Related Words galilee, portico; sleeping porch, solarium, sunporch, sunroom (also sun parlor); porte cochere

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