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Definition of Exhibition

1. Noun. The act of exhibiting. "A remarkable exhibition of musicianship"

2. Noun. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.

Definition of Exhibition

1. n. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

Definition of Exhibition

1. Noun. An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited. ¹

2. Noun. A large scale public showing of objects or products. ¹

3. Noun. (U.K.) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exhibition

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exhibition

1. 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition. 3. Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, especially. For meat and drink; pension. Specifically: Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars. "What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like exhibition thou shalt have from me." (Shak) "I have given more exhibitions to scholars, in my days, than to the priests." (Tyndale) 4. The act of administering a remedy. Origin: L. Exhibitio a delivering: cf. F. Exhibition. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exhibition

exhaustments exhausts exhausture exhedra exhedrae exhedras exheredation exheredations exhereditation exhibit

exhibitable exhibited exhibiter exhibiters exhibiting exhibition exhibition area exhibition game exhibition hall exhibition season

exhibitioner exhibitioners exhibitionisms exhibitionistic exhibitionistically exhibitionists exhibitions exhibitive

Literary usage of Exhibition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"With the other buildings attached to the exhibition, a total space of 60 acres was ... The space occupied by the exhibition is about 140 English acres ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"The exhibition management will allow special privileges to those exhibitors whose machines and apparatus are utilized for the exhibition's purposes, ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Int Studio 58:197-202 My '16 Annual exhibition of the Hoyal Canadian academy. ... NN Nation 103:524-6 N 30 '16 Autumn exhibitions; exhibition of lithographs ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"ANCIENT LIGHTS IN THE GUELPH Exhibition. I HAD been spending one of the most delightful and exciting afternoons I ever remember. Fond as I am of pictures, ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"THF: first Exhibition ever held in Asia (India excepted) has been held at ... Its first Exhibition is interesting, as indicative of the progress Bussia is ..."

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