Gallery

n. raised balcony-like area (in a theater, etc.); narrow covered walkway open on one or both sides; building in which artwork is exhibited; hall, room used for a particular purpose; general public

Gallery may refer to:An art gallery, such as those in Gallery (architecture), an element in architecture, a long hallway flanked with walls or rows of columns.A narrow balcony, usually including a railing, inside or outside of a building.A minstrel's gallery, a balcony used by performing musicians.An observation deck, usually on the upper floors of a building, used to afford visitors a long-distance view.An audience or group of spectators.A horizontal passage in an underground mine.A usually vertical, raised edge around the perimeter of a serving tray, sideboard, or other useful object designed to form a protective barrier
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Noun
1. spectators at a golf or tennis match
(hypernym) audience
2. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
(synonym) veranda, verandah
(hypernym) porch
(hyponym) lanai
3. a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
(synonym) art gallery, picture gallery
(hypernym) room
(hyponym) salon
4. a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
(hypernym) room
5. a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
(hypernym) corridor
6. narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
(hypernym) balcony
(hyponym) amphitheater, amphitheatre
7. a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
(synonym) drift, heading
(hypernym) passageway
(classification) mining, excavation

(a.)
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
  

(a.)
A working drift or level.
  

(a.)
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
  

(a.)
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
  

(a.)
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
  

(a.)
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
  

The audience watching a tournament , or the structure from which the audience watched a tourney. From the 12th to the 14th century, these were generally informal places such as a hillside or a pavilion where ladies, courtiers and heralds could watch the engagement, but during the 15th century as the splendor of the tournament created a more elaborate pageant, wooden structures similar to "box seats" were built and decorated with fabric. Such galleries are common in the illustrations of King René d’Anjou’s Livre de Tournoi from the middle 15th century. See Chronique: The Journal of Chivalry #10 .