Definition of gallery

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of gallery is as below...

Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..

Lern More About Gallery

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..
Loft :: Loft (n.) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft..
Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A gallery for minstrels.
Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..
Camonflet :: Camonflet (n.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners..
Excubitorium :: Excubitorium (n.) A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night..
Baluster :: Baluster (n.) A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade..
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) 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..
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Subworker :: Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery..
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..
Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.
Pinacotheca :: Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.
Trapper :: Trapper (n.) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level.
Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc..
Veranda :: Veranda (n.) An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia..
Thrust :: Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us