different between spectator vs gallery

English

Alternative forms

• spectatour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spect?tor, from frequentative verb spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”). Equivalent to spectate +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: sp?k.t??t?, IPA^(key): /sp?k?te?t?/
• (US) enPR: sp?k?t?.t?r, IPA^(key): /?sp?kte?t?/

Noun

spectator (plural spectators)

1. One who watches an event; especially, an event held outdoors.

Synonyms

• audience
• observer
• crowd

Derived terms

• spect-actor
• spectate
• spectatorship

Translations

Anagrams

• attercops, caprettos, catopters

Latin

Etymology

Latin agent noun from perfect passive participle spect?tus, from frequentative form spect? (“watch”), from speci? (“look at”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta?.tor/, [s?p?k?t?ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spek?ta.tor/, [sp?k?t???t??r]

Noun

spect?tor m (genitive spect?t?ris); third declension

1. spectator, watcher

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• speci?
• spect?
• spectus

Descendants

References

• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French spectateur, from Latin spectator.

Noun

spectator m (plural spectatori)

1. spectator

Declension

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