exhibition

From Old French exhibicion.

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• IPA^(key): /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

exhibition (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitions)

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. (Britain) 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.

• exhibitionism
• make an exhibition of oneself

• exposition

Borrowed from Latin exhibitiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zi.bi.sjɔ̃/

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exhibition f (plural exhibitions)

1. (sports) exhibition, friendly
2. (document) presentation, production
3. showing off, outrageous behaviour

• match d'exhibition
• exhibitionnisme
• exhibitionniste

• “exhibition” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).