Other forms: exhibitions
An exhibition is a public showing of art in a gallery for some weeks. A new exhibition, the exhibition opens, exhibition catalogue.
The hanging is an argument: the order things are shown in tells you what the curator thinks. In American English a show is the commoner word. Make an exhibition of yourself means to behave embarrassingly in public. Note exhibit, from the Latin for holding out.
1nounexhibitionA public showing of art or objects.
“The museum has a new exhibition of photographs from the 1960s.”
exhibition is a public showing.
Also accepted in games: exhibit
Latin exhibitio comes from exhibere, to hold out — ex plus habere, to have. Habit and prohibit come from the same holding.
Old French
exhibicion
English, today
exhibition
From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA