gallery

gallery
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galleries
1) N-COUNT: oft in names after n A gallery is a place that has permanent exhibitions of works of art in it.

...an art gallery.

...the National Gallery.

2) N-COUNT A gallery is a privately owned building or room where people can look at and buy works of art.

The painting is in the gallery upstairs.

3) N-COUNT A gallery is an area high above the ground at the back or at the sides of a large room or hall.

A crowd already filled the gallery.

4) N-COUNT: usu the N in sing The gallery in a theatre or concert hall is an area high above the ground that usually contains the cheapest seats.

They had been forced to find cheap tickets in the gallery.

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PHRASE: V inflects If you play to the gallery, you do something in public in a way which you hope will impress people.

...but I must tell you that in my opinion you're both now playing to the gallery.


English dictionary. 2008.

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