gallery
noun
Simple meaning
A room or series of rooms where works of art are show.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
galereeSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɡælɚi
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- General English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
Used this way, gallery is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use gallery
- “The art gallery displayed many beautiful paintings by local artists.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A narrow raised platform at the side of a stage in a theater.
People whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance).
A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited.
An area (sometimes in a balcony) set aside for reporters (especially in a legislative hall).
A coterie of undesirable people.
A building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin.
Related Words
Connected to the same idea, not synonyms.
- exhibitionnoun
- sculpturenoun
- retrospectivenoun
- paintingnoun
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