Exhibition
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Origin
From Old French exhibicion.
Full definition of exhibition
Noun
exhibition
(plural exhibitions)- An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
- A large scale public showing of objects or products.There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.a boat exhibition
- (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.