Meanings
plural exhibitors
- Someone who exhibits something.
The exhibitors at the aviation conference included the inventor of a new kind of light aircraft.
1 more example
The organizer of a canceled business and community fair aimed at the lesbian and gay community says he has mailed refunds to all the exhibitors who reserved booths.
1984 April 7, Larry Goldsmith, “Gay Expo Organizer: Checks Are in the Mail”, in Gay Community News, page 1 - Someone who organizes an exhibition.
- datedAn exhibitionist.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounsomeone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinexhibitor
- Latinexhibitor
- Englishexhibitor
Learned borrowing from Latin exhibitor. First attested in 1654. By surface analysis, exhibit + -or.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Indonesian ekshibitor, ekshibitor
- ekshibitorone who exhibits something
- ekshibitorone who organizes an exhibition
Italian esibitore, espositore
- esibitoreone who exhibits something
- espositoreone who organizes an exhibition
Spanish expositor, expositora
- expositorone who exhibits something
- expositoraone who exhibits something
- exhibidorone who exhibits something
- exhibidorone who organizes an exhibition
- expositorone who organizes an exhibition
Cite this entry
exhibitor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhibitor
“exhibitor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhibitor. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exhibitor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhibitor.
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