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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#m1)

2) A raised floor or balcony inside a large building, like a theatre or church, where people can sit or look down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#m2)

3) A long narrow room or passage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#m3)

4) (on a phone or computer) The place where your photos are kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x1)
- The gallery has paintings that are hundreds of years old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x2)
- Our drawings are in the school gallery by the office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x3)
- We sat in the gallery and looked down at the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x4)
- The photo is in the gallery on my phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x5)
- Please don't touch the paintings in the gallery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x6)
- The shooting gallery at the fair had wooden ducks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x7)
- They entered a long gallery, where the boy had been before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/13/)
- [In a museum or gallery, do not touch exhibits unless signs say you can, because they can be old and fragile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gallery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gallery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.