1. A room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
   "We spent hours admiring paintings in the art gallery"; "They spent hours wandering through the picture gallery at the museum";
   - art gallery, picture gallery
    
2. A long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
   "shooting gallery"
    
3. A covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
   "Students gathered in the gallery between classes to chat and study"
    
4. Narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
   "The opera house had a beautiful gallery where patrons could mingle during intermission"
    
5. A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
   "They enjoyed their morning coffee on the gallery overlooking the garden";
   - veranda, verandah
    
6. (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
   "they dug a gallery parallel with the vein";
   - drift, heading
    
7. Spectators at a golf or tennis match
   "The gallery cheered as the golfer sank the winning putt"
    
8. A website section displaying images, photos or lists of items
   "Check out our online gallery of recent events"

Derived forms: galleries

Type of: audience, balcony, corridor, passageway, porch, room

Encyclopedia: Gallery, Tom