exhibition

plural exhibitions

1. countableuncountableAn instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
2. countableuncountableA large-scale public showing of objects or products.

   a boat exhibition

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   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

3. countableuncountableA public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.

   a shameful exhibition

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   a disgusting exhibition

   Well I made some exhibition, I lost my will to eat / The only thing that matters to me is to touch your lotus feet

   2002, George Harrison, “Stuck Inside a Cloud”, in Brainwashed

4. countableuncountableA demonstration of personal skill or feelings.

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   "I could not have believed," remarked Francesca, "had I not witnessed it since my residence in your country, how the reality and the affectation of feeling can exist together. Before I left our solitary home, the very exhibition of emotion would have tempted me to doubt its truth. Now, I observe that some affect, as others shun, display; yet the feeling is equally true in both."

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 178

5. UKcountableuncountableA financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.

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

   2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review

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   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.

   1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 352

6. countableuncountablehobbiesA game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

present singular third person exhibitions · participle present exhibitioning · participle past exhibitioned · past exhibitioned

1. intransitiveTo participate in sexual exhibitionism.