exhibition

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Etymology

From Old French exhibicion.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

exhibition (plural exhibitions)

1. An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
2. A large scale public showing of objects or products.

   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

   a boat exhibition

3. (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 352:

     He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

Derived terms

• exhibitionism
• make an exhibition of oneself

Related terms

• exposition

Translations

instance of exhibiting

• Bashkir: күрһәтеү (ba) (kürhätew)
• Bulgarian: показване (bg) (pokazvane) n
• Finnish: näyttely (fi), näytös (fi)
• Greek: παρουσίαση (el) (parousíasi) f, επίδειξη (el) (epíδiksi) f

• Irish: taispeántas (ga) m
• Korean: 전시 (ko) (jeonsi)
• Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh (gd) m
• Swedish: utställning (sv) c, visning (sv) c

large scale public showing of objects or products

• Arabic: معرض (ar) (máʿraḍ) m
• Bashkir: күргәҙмә (ba) (kürgäðmä)
• Bulgarian: изложба (bg) (izložba) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 展覽會 (cmn), 展览会 (cmn) (zhǎnlǎnhuì)

• Czech: výstava (cs) f
• Dutch: tentoonstelling (nl) f
• Finnish: näyttely (fi)
• French: exposition (fr) f
• German: Ausstellung (de) f

• Greek: έκθεση (el) (ékθesi) f
• Hungarian: kiállítás (hu)
• Irish: taispeántas (ga) m
• Japanese: 展覧会 (ja) (てんらんかい, tenrankai)
• Korean: 전시회 (ko) (jeonsihoe), 전람회 (ko) (jeollamhoe)
• Romanian: expoziție (ro) f
• Russian: выставка (ru) (výstavka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh (gd) m
• Swedish: utställning (sv) c, visning (sv) c

financial award to a student

• Bulgarian: стипендия (bg) (stipendija) f
• Finnish: stipendi (fi)

• Greek: υποτροφία (el) (ipotrofía) f
• Korean: 장학금 (ko) (janghakgeum)

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• Esperanto: ekspozicio (eo) (1, 2)