Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gallery"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Gallery
(1.) Heb. 'attik (Ezek. 41:15, 16), a terrace; a projection;
ledge.
(2.) Heb. rahit (Cant. 1:17), translated "rafters," marg.
"galleries;" probably panel-work or fretted ceiling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gallery \Gal"ler*y\, n.; pl. {Galleries}. [F. galerie, It.
galleria, fr. LL. galeria gallery, perh. orig., a festal
hall, banquetting hall; cf. OF. galerie a rejoicing, fr.
galer to rejoice. Cf. {Gallant}, a.]
1. A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a
connecting passageway, as between one room and another;
also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or
burrowing animal.
2. A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture
gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of
paintings, sculptures, etc.
3. A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides
of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported
by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be
occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed
merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
4. (Naut.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern
or quarter of a ship, and hence called {stern gallery} or
{quarter gallery}, -- seldom found in vessels built since
1850.
5. (Fort.) Any communication which is covered overhead as
well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a
defensive gallery.
6. (Mining) A working drift or level.
{Whispering gallery}. See under {Whispering}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gallery
n 1: spectators at a golf or tennis match
2: a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly
enclosed) [syn: {veranda}, {verandah}]
3: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
[syn: {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: (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a
mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein" [syn: {drift},
{heading}]
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