exhibition

noun

1. 1

   An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

2. 2

   A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

   a boat exhibition

3. 3

   A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.

   a shameful exhibition

   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

4. 4

   A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.

   "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."

5. 5

   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.

   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.

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

6. 6

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

verb

1. 1

   To participate in sexual exhibitionism.

Forms

plural

exhibitions

past tense

exhibitioned

past participle

exhibitioned

present participle

exhibitioning

third person singular

exhibitions