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gallery

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A gallery is an elevated upper level in a theatre, hall, or church, often containing seats for spectators and set apart from the main floor.

Detailed Definition
Here, gallery means the high or cheap seats in a theatre, not an art gallery. The poem contrasts where civilians are placed with where soldiers are treated, so the theatre term matters to the scene.
Example
Example in poetry:
Kipling’s speaker says, “They sent me to the gallery or round the music-’alls,” using gallery for a cheap theatre seating area; A gallery can also mean a room where art is displayed: “her footsteps echoed through the gallery”; In architecture, a gallery may be an elevated walkway or spectator space; Context determines whether the word suggests culture, class, viewing, or distance
Additional Notes
In this theatre context, gallery is a specialized seating term that some readers may not know from everyday use.; Found in the poem, Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
Other Meanings of “gallery”
Also Known As
exhibition showcase display
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