Definitions for galleries

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galleries gal·ler·y

Spelling: [gal-uh-ree, gal-ree]

IPA: /ˈgæl ə ri, ˈgæl ri/

Galleries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in galleries (aeegillrs).

Definitions for galleries

noun

1. a raised area, often having a stepped or sloping floor, in a theater, church, or other public building to accommodate spectators, exhibits, etc.
2. the uppermost of such areas in a theater, usually containing the cheapest seats.
3. the occupants of such an area in a theater.
4. the general public, especially when regarded as having popular or uncultivated tastes.
5. any group of spectators or observers, as at a golf match, a Congressional session, etc.
6. a room, series of rooms, or building devoted to the exhibition and often the sale of works of art.
7. a long covered area, narrow and open at one or both sides, used especially as a walk or corridor.
8. Chiefly South Atlantic States. a long porch or portico; veranda.
9. a long, relatively narrow room, especially one for public use.
10. a corridor, especially one having architectural importance through its scale or decorative treatment.
11. a raised, balconylike platform or passageway running along the exterior wall of a building inside or outside.
12. a large room or building used for photography, target practice, or other special purposes:
13. a collection of art for exhibition.
14. Theater. a narrow, raised platform located beyond the acting area, used by stagehands or technicians to stand on when working.
15. Nautical. a projecting balcony or structure on the quarter or stern of a vessel.
16. Furniture. an ornamental railing or cresting surrounding the top of a table, stand, desk, etc.
17. Mining. a level or drift.
18. a small tunnel in a dam, mine, or rock, for various purposes, as inspection or drainage.
19. a passageway made by an animal.
20. Fortification Obsolete. an underground or covered passage to another part of a fortified position.

Idioms

1. play to the gallery, to attempt to appeal to the popular taste, as opposed to a more refined or esoteric taste:

Origin of galleries

1400-50; late Middle English Old French galerie Medieval Latin galeria, by dissimilation or suffix replacement from galilea, galilæa galilee

Examples for galleries

A long vault, corresponding to the gallery above, led to these cellars.

In the Peer's gallery were the foremost members of the House of Lords.

The one you've got of me in the gallery is over ten years old.

But my favorites, and by far the most intimate photos at the gallery, are by Jimmy Steinfeld.

Dee Dee candles, rosaries, shirts and prints are offered for sale near the gallery's door as a kind of consolation.

gallery: 'JUSTICE FOR ALL' MARCH IN WASHINGTON DC There were plenty of representatives of the fringe too.

And now, may I have the honor of asking you to accept the escort of Mr. Cassidy to our gallery.

As the bill failed in the Senate, a pigtailed member of the Lakota Sioux tribe stood up in the gallery and began chanting.

There was then a gallery show and a local reporter did a feature.

Her picture, of course, is already in the Rogues' gallery, but they will take another.