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Meaning of 'gallery' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gallery [ a.]
- 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.
- A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
- A working drift or level.

Meaning of 'gallery' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . gallery [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
Example in sentence:
  • shooting gallery
Meaning (2):
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
Example in sentence:
  • they dug a drift parallel with the vein

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