gallery

«gallery» in Mova's school dictionary: A building or room where paintings, sculptures and other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a gallery, galleries)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

sense 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 the corpora

• Many national museums and galleries in Britain are free to enter, paid for by taxes and donations; some charge for special exhibitions.
• In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «gallery» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.