- a raised area, often having a stepped or sloping floor, in a theater, church, or other public building to accommodate spectators, exhibits, etc.
- the uppermost of such areas in a theater, usually containing the cheapest seats.
- the occupants of such an area in a theater.
- the general public, especially when regarded as having popular or uncultivated tastes.
- any group of spectators or observers, as at a golf match, a Congressional session, etc.
- a room, series of rooms, or building devoted to the exhibition and often the sale of works of art.
- a long covered area, narrow and open at one or both sides, used especially as a walk or corridor.
- a long porch or portico; veranda.
- a long, relatively narrow room, especially one for public use.
- a corridor, especially one having architectural importance through its scale or decorative treatment.
- a raised, balconylike platform or passageway running along the exterior wall of a building inside or outside.
- a large room or building used for photography, target practice, or other special purposes: a shooting gallery.
- a collection of art for exhibition.
- a narrow, raised platform located beyond the acting area, used by stagehands or technicians to stand on when working.
- a projecting balcony or structure on the quarter or stern of a vessel.
- an ornamental railing or cresting surrounding the top of a table, stand, desk, etc.
- a level or drift.
- a small tunnel in a dam, mine, or rock, for various purposes, as inspection or drainage.
- a passageway made by an animal.
- an underground or covered passage to another part of a fortified position.
- to attempt to appeal to the popular taste, as opposed to a more refined or esoteric taste: Movies, though still playing mainly to the gallery, have taken their place as a significant art form.
- a room or building for exhibiting works of art
- a covered passageway open on one side or on both sides
- a balcony running along or around the inside wall of a church, hall, etc
- a covered balcony, sometimes with columns on the outside
- theatre
- an upper floor that projects from the rear over the main floor and contains the cheapest seats
- the seats there
- the audience seated there
- a long narrow room, esp one used for a specific purpose
- a building or room where articles are sold at auction
- an underground passage, as in a mine, the burrow of an animal, etc
- a narrow raised platform at the side or along the back of the stage for the use of technicians and stagehands
- (in a TV studio) a glass-fronted soundproof room high up to one side of the studio looking into it. One gallery is used by the director and an assistant and one is for lighting, etc
- a balcony or platform at the quarter or stern of a ship, sometimes used as a gun emplacement
- a small ornamental metal or wooden balustrade or railing on a piece of furniture, esp one surrounding the top of a desk, table, etc
- any group of spectators, as at a golf match
- to try to gain popular favour, esp by crude appeals
