Definition of Exhibition

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

Generic synonyms: Demonstration, Presentation, Presentment
Specialized synonyms: Production, Rodeo
Derivative terms: Exhibit, Exhibit

2. Noun. A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display.
Exact synonyms: Expo, Exposition
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production
Generic synonyms: Accumulation, Aggregation, Assemblage, Collection
Specialized synonyms: Art Exhibition, Peepshow, Raree-show, Fair

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 (current term)
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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