How to pronounce galley
American English pronunciation
GAL-ee
- IPA
- /ˈɡæli/
- Syllables
- GAL · ee (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What galley means
The kitchen on a ship or plane
In a sentence: The ship's cook flipped pancakes in the tiny galley below deck.
Where it comes from: It goes back through French and Latin to a Greek word that probably came from the name of a small fish.
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Another meaning
A printer's trial copy of a page, for checking
In a sentence: The author read the galleys carefully, circling every typo before the book was printed.
Where it comes from: It comes through Old French from a Greek word of unknown origin. Printers called their long trays for set type galleys, and the trial pages printed from those trays took the name too.
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