gallery

Pronunciation: /ˈɡæl.ɚ.i/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun spectators at a golf or tennis match
  2. noun a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
  3. noun a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

Etymology

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.

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