gallery

Meanings

Noun

• An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
• An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
• The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
• The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
• A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
• The spectators of an event, collectively.
• A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
• A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
• A level or drive in a mine.

Verb

• To show off

Origin

• From Old French galerie, gallerie, from Medieval Latin galeria, perhaps an alteration of galilea, probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.