• Exhibition

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /É›ksɪˈbɪʃən/
    • Rhymes: -ɪʃən

    Origin

    From Old French exhibicion.

    Full definition of exhibition

    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.

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