gallery

English

A gallery

Etymology

From Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæləɹi/
• Hyphenation: gal‧le‧ry

Noun

gallery (plural galleries)

1. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
2. An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
3. The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
4. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
5. The spectators of an event, collectively.
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Capello was missing his son's wedding in Milan to take charge – yet his reshaped England team gave him cause for a double celebration as they overturned the odds in front of a delighted Wembley gallery.

6. (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

   a gallery of image thumbnails

   a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

7. (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
8. (mining) a level or drive in a mine.

Derived terms

• mobile gallery
• peanut gallery
• rogues' gallery

 

Related terms

• gallerist

Translations

institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art

• Albanian: galeri (sq) f
• Arabic: مَعْرِض‎ m (maʿriḍ)

  Gulf Arabic: مَعْرَض‎ m

• Armenian: պատկերասրահ (hy) (patkerasrah)
• Azerbaijani: qalereya
• Belarusian: галерэ́я f (haljeréja)
• Bulgarian: гале́рия (bg) f (galérija)
• Catalan: galeria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 藝廊, 艺廊 (ngai⁶ long⁴)

  Mandarin: 藝廊 (zh), 艺廊 (zh) (yìláng)

• Czech: galerie (cs) f
• Danish: galleri n
• Dutch: galerij (nl) f
• Esperanto: galerio
• Estonian: galerii (et)
• Finnish: galleria (fi)
• French: galerie (fr) f
• Galician: galería f
• Georgian: გალერეა (galerea)
• German: Galerie (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: πινακοθήκη f (pinakothḗkē)

• Hebrew: גָּלֶרְיָה‎ (he) f (galeria)
• Hindi: गैलरी (hi) (gailrī)
• Hungarian: képtár (hu), galéria (hu)
• Irish: dánlann f, gailearaí m
• Italian: galleria (it) f
• Japanese: 画廊 (ja) (がろう, garō), ギャラリー (ja) (gyararī)
• Kannada: chitrakala (chitrakala), ಚಿತ್ರಕಲ (chitrakala)
• Kazakh: галерея (galereya)
• Khmer: វិចិត្រសាល (vicətraʾ saal), វិចត្រសាល (vicətraʾ saal)
• Korean: 갤러리 (gaelleori)
• Kyrgyz: галерея (ky) (galereya)
• Latvian: galerija f

• Lithuanian: galerija f
• Macedonian: галерија f (galerija)
• Maori: whare toi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: galleri (no) n

  Nynorsk: galleri n

• Persian: نمایشگاه‎ (fa) (namâyešgâh), گالری‎ (fa) (gâleri)
• Polish: galeria (pl) f
• Portuguese: galeria (pt) f
• Romanian: galerie (ro) f
• Russian: галере́я (ru) f (galeréja)
• Scottish Gaelic: gailearaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: галерија f

  Roman: galerija (sh) f

• Slovak: galéria f
• Slovene: galerija (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: galerija f

  Upper Sorbian: galerija f

• Spanish: galería (es) f
• Swedish: galleri (sv) n
• Tajik: галерея (galereya)
• Tamil: காட்சியகம் (ta) (kāṭciyakam)
• Thai: หอศิลป์ (hɔ̌ɔ-sǐn)
• Turkish: galeri (tr)
• Turkmen: galereýa
• Ukrainian: галере́я f (haleréja)
• Uzbek: galereya (uz)
• Welsh: oriel f, orielau f pl

establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art

• Armenian: պատկերասրահ (hy) (patkerasrah)
• Bulgarian: галерия (bg) f (galerija)
• Catalan: galeria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 畫店 (hua4dian4), 展銷畫廊 (zhan3xian1 hua4lang2)

• Czech: galerie (cs) f
• Finnish: galleria (fi)
• French: galerie (fr) f
• Galician: galería f
• Georgian: გალერეა (galerea)
• German: Galerie (de) f
• Hindi: गैलरी (hi) f (gailrī)
• Hungarian: galéria (hu)
• Irish: dánlann f, gailearaí m
• Italian: galleria (it) f
• Korean: 갤러리 (gaelleori)
• Macedonian: галерија f (galerija)
• Maori: whare toi

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: galleri (no) n

  Nynorsk: galleri n

• Persian: نمایشگاه‎ (fa) (namâyešgâh)
• Portuguese: galeria (pt) f
• Russian: галере́я (ru) f (galeréja)
• Scottish Gaelic: gailearaidh m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: galerija f

• Spanish: galería (es) f
• Swedish: galleri (sv) n
• Thai: หอศิลป์ (hɔ̌ɔ-sǐn)
• Turkish: galeri (tr)
• Ukrainian: галере́я f (haleréja)

area of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium

• Bulgarian: галерия (bg) f (galerija)
• Catalan: galeria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 楼座层 (lou2zuo4ceng2), 悬臂楼座 (xuan2bi4 lou2zuo4)

• Czech: galerie (cs) f
• Finnish: lehteri (fi), parvi (fi)
• French: balcon (fr) m
• Georgian: გალერეა (galerea), ქანდარა (kandara)
• German: Galerie (de) f
• Hindi: गैलरी (hi) f (gailrī)
• Hungarian: karzat (hu)
• Italian: palchetto (it) m, balconata (it) f, galleria (it) f, loggia (it) f
• Japanese: 桟敷 (さじき, sajiki)
• Macedonian: галерија f (galerija)
• Maori: huarewa

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: galleri (no) n

  Nynorsk: galleri n

• Portuguese: galeria (pt) f, tribuna (pt) f
• Russian: галере́я (ru) f (galeréja)
• Swedish: läktare (sv) c, balkong (sv) c
• Turkish: galeri (tr)
• Ukrainian: галере́я f (haleréja)
• Welsh: oriel f, orielau f pl
• Westrobothnian: lekt m or f

roofed promenade along the wall of a building

• Bulgarian: галерия (bg) f (galerija)
• Catalan: galeria (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廊庑 (zh) (lángwǔ), 廡 (zh) (wǔ)

• Dutch: galerij (nl) f
• Finnish: galleria (fi)
• French: galerie (fr) f
• Galician: galería f
• Georgian: გალერეა (galerea)
• German: Galerie (de) f

• Italian: galleria (it) f, portico (it) m, porticato (it)
• Khmer: ថែវ (km) (thaew)
• Portuguese: galeria (pt) f
• Russian: галере́я (ru) f (galeréja)
• Spanish: galería (es) f
• Turkish: galeri (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} فَرَاغ لِلْعَرْض‎ (farāḡ li-l-ʿarḍ) / ^{(please verify)} قَاعَة عَرْض‎ (qāʿa(t) ʿarḍ)

• Novial: ^{(please verify)} galerie

Verb

gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off

Further reading

• gallery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gallery in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• gallery at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allergy, largely, regally