GALLERY - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

spectators at a golf or tennis match

Categories: Audience

Part of speech: Noun

a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

Categories: Room

Part of speech: Noun

a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose

Example: shooting gallery

Categories: Room

Part of speech: Noun

a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)

Categories: Corridor

Part of speech: Noun

narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade

Categories: Balcony

The word "gallery" comes from Latin Galilaea. It started in Latin galeria. Then it appeared in Old French galerie.

Galilee – A related word in the same word family.

Medieval scholars created new Latin words for modern concepts, keeping the language alive for centuries.