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| Back | gal‧le‧ry W3 /ˈɡæləri/ noun (plural galleries) [countable] 1 a)a large building where people can see famous pieces of art: an exhibition of African art at the Hayward Gallery b)a small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of art 2 a)an upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc: the public gallery in Congress in the gallery We could only afford seats up in the gallery. b)the gallery the people sitting in a gallery 3play to the gallery to do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular 4a level passage under the ground in a mine or cave → press gallery, shooting gallery COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery an art gallery a guide to the city's museums and art galleries a picture/portrait gallery The picture gallery is full of treasures. a private gallery (=owned by a private person) The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States. the national gallery (=owned by the country) Edinburgh has three national galleries. verbs visit/go to a gallery The children visited the gallery on a school trip. a painting hangs in a gallery Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada. a gallery is showing/exhibiting something The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works. exhibit something in/at a gallery It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery. gallery + NOUN gallery space (=area for displaying art ) She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology. |
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