exhibition

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/

Noun

exhibition

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.

   • 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:

     Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.

4. (sports) A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

Related terms

• exposition

Translations

• German: Austellung
• Portuguese: exibição
• Russian: пока́з
• Spanish: exhibición

Translations

• French: exposition
• German: Ausstellung
• Italian: mostra, esposizione
• Portuguese: exibição, mostra
• Russian: вы́ставка
• Spanish: exposición

Translations

• Portuguese: bolsa de estudos
• Russian: стипе́ндия
• Spanish: beca

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