Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Whispering gallery   /wˈɪspərɪŋ gˈæləri/   Listen
Whispering gallery

noun
1.
A space beneath a dome or arch in which sounds produced at certain points are clearly audible at certain distant points.  Synonym: whispering dome.





Click any word on the page to get its definition
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Whispering gallery" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have been built purposely in such a way, that the bishop, or dean, or dignitary, who should preach there, might not be obliged to strain his voice too much. I was now conducted to that part which is called the whispering gallery, which is a circumference of prodigious extent, just below the cupola. Here I was directed to place myself in a part of it directly opposite to my conductor, on the other side of the gallery, so that we had the whole breadth of the church between us, and here ...
— Travels in England in 1782 • Charles P. Moritz
 Read full book for free!


Words linked to "Whispering gallery" :   dome


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com