gallery

Everyday

1. A building or room where paintings, sculptures and other art are shown. tree →
2. A raised floor or balcony inside a large building, like a theatre or church, where people can sit or look down. tree →
3. A long narrow room or passage. tree →
4. (on a phone or computer) The place where your photos are kept. tree →

In the lessons

In school: class trips to an art gallery; a display of pupils' work may be called «our gallery». In everyday life: «the photo gallery on my tablet». Phrases: «art gallery», «national gallery», «photo gallery», «play to the gallery» (show off to please the crowd).

Examples

• We visited the art gallery on our school trip. tree →
• The gallery has paintings that are hundreds of years old. tree →
• Our drawings are in the school gallery by the office. tree →
• We sat in the gallery and looked down at the stage. tree →
• The photo is in the gallery on my phone. tree →
• Please don't touch the paintings in the gallery. tree →
• The shooting gallery at the fair had wooden ducks. tree →
• They entered a long gallery, where the boy had been before. tree →

Note

Plural: galleries (y → ies). Spelling: double l, «-ery». Countable.

In Jewish tradition

In Ezekiel's vision of the future Temple, the galleries are raised walkways or terraces in the side chambers, built in three stories.

Interpretation. The tradition sees Ezekiel's Temple as a plan for a future Temple. Its measurements are studied closely and are said to be fully explained only when the Messiah comes.

Examples

• Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building. (Prophets EZK.42.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories. (Prophets EZK.42.3, JPS 1917) tree →
• And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits. (Prophets EZK.41.15, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Plural: galleries (y → ies). Spelling: double l, «-ery». Countable.