gallery
A room or building where people can look at paintings, sculptures, and other art.
A room or building where works of art are displayed to the public.
The highest seats in a theater or hall, often far from the stage.
An upper floor or balcony in a theater, hall, or church that provides seating for the audience.
A group of pictures or photos shown together in one place or on a website.
A set of pictures, photographs, or other visual works shown together, either physically or digitally.
A long narrow hall inside a building, ship, or underground place.
A long narrow passageway, often underground or inside a ship, building, or mine.
- Base: gallery
- Plural: galleries
art gallery opening
1Event starting an art exhibition
A special event when an art show starts and people can come to see it for the first time.
- We attended an art gallery opening downtown last night.
- The art gallery opening attracted many local artists and collectors.
shooting gallery
1Place for target shooting practice
A place where people can practice shooting guns at targets.
- They went to the shooting gallery to improve their aim.
- The fair had a small shooting gallery with prizes for winners.
peanut gallery
1noisy or critical onlookers
People who are watching and making unhelpful or rude comments, instead of doing something useful.
- Ignore the peanut gallery and focus on your work.
- Okay, peanut gallery, let me finish speaking before you all comment.
- The peanut gallery had plenty to say about his performance.
- He ignored the peanut gallery on social media and stayed focused on his work.
- The coach told the peanut gallery of parents to stop shouting at the referee.