different between gallery vs arcade

English

Etymology

From Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl??i/
• Hyphenation: gal?le?ry

Noun

gallery (plural galleries)

1. An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art.
2. An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
3. The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
4. (law) The, often elevated and in the rear, part of a courtroom where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
5. A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side
6. The spectators of an event, collectively.
7. (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.

   a gallery of image thumbnails

   a clip-art gallery in a wordprocessor

8. (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
9. (mining) a level or drive in a mine.

Derived terms

Related terms

• gallerist

Translations

Verb

gallery (third-person singular simple present galleries, present participle gallerying, simple past and past participle galleried)

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) To show off

Further reading

• gallery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• gallery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gallery at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allergy, largely, regally

English

Etymology

French arcade, from Italian arcata (“arch of a bridge”), from Latin arcus (“arc”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ke?d/
• Hyphenation: ar?cade
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

arcade (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) A row of arches.
2. (architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.
3. (video games) An establishment that runs coin-operated games.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Afrikaans: arcade
• ? Czech: arkádové

Translations

Verb

arcade (third-person singular simple present arcades, present participle arcading, simple past and past participle arcaded)

1. (transitive) To cover (something) as with a series of arches.

   • 1873, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Death Shot, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 1, Chapter 25, p. 224,^[1]

     its trottoirs brick-paved, and shaded by trees of almost tropical foliage— conspicuous among them the odoriferous magnolia, and the melia azedarach, or “Pride of China,”—these in places completely arcading the street—

Anagrams

• adarce, araced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French arcade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r?ka?.d?/
• Hyphenation: ar?ca?de
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

arcade f (plural arcaden or arcades, diminutive arcadetje n)

1. (architecture) arcade (array of arches)

Derived terms

• arcadehal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: arkade

French

Etymology

Italian arcata, equivalent to arc +? -ade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.kad/

Noun

arcade f (plural arcades)

1. (architecture) arcade
2. (anatomy) arch, ridge
3. (gaming) arcade

Derived terms

• arcade sourcilière

Descendants

Further reading

• “arcade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).