press gallery
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5.3
- noun
- /prɛs ˈɡæləri/
- Literature
:
galería de prensa
- During the speech, all eyes in the press gallery were focused on the speaker at the podium.
Examples
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The press gallery on the courtroom's left is full.
Blog text (24) -
-For three and a half years, he'd been trying to explain SNORPP to the Washington press gallery.
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As Thomas Ricks writes in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, "When the House debate began, there was just one reporter in the press gallery."
Academic text (2006) -
After all, every four years at the national conventions, as at every big trial, and even the White House press gallery or the legislative galleries in statehouses across the land, folks making decisions about who gets press credentials and who don't will be asking themselves who, really, is a journalist.
Blog text (20) -
The reporters sat attentively in the press gallery as the debate unfolded in the legislative chamber.
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He leaned over the railing of the press gallery to get a better view of the proceedings below.
Synonyms
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3.1
An area in a stadium or arena where reporters and broadcasters sit to report the game
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area reserved for reporters' is directly derivable from combining 'press' (journalists) with 'gallery' (a viewing or seating area); a B1 learner who knows both constituent words can infer it denotes a gallery for the press. The compound follows standard English composition patterns and similar formulations exist in other languages, so the meaning is predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Press gallery comes from two simple images: press (the newspapers and their workers) and gallery (a balcony where people watched events). Because journalists often sat in that balcony to watch and report on government meetings, press gallery now means the 'reserved area' for reporters in a parliament or government hall.