Meaning & use
Gallery
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A room or building used to display works of art, or more broadly, an upper level of seating in a theater, or a group of spectators at a sporting event.
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The new gallery downtown features paintings by local artists.
The golf crowd, known as the gallery, applauded politely after the winning putt.
A note on using this word
In theaters, "the gallery" traditionally referred to the cheapest, highest seats, which gave rise to the expression "playing to the gallery," meaning to seek approval from the least sophisticated part of an audience.
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