gallery meaning and definition

GALLERY noun

Definition of gallery (noun)

1. spectators at a golf or tennis match
2. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
   • synonyms: veranda, verandah
3. a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
   • synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery
4. a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
   • "shooting gallery"
5. a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
6. narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
   • "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
   • synonyms: drift, heading