exposition
See also: Exposition
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English exposicioun, from Old French esposicion, from Latin expositiō, from expōnere (“to put forth”). The sense meaning "exhibition" is a later semantic loan from French exposition.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɛkspəˈzɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editexposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)
- The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
- (authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).
- Hypernym: explanation
- This essay has too much exposition in it.
- My reviewer said she couldn't picture the setting for my story, so I'm improving the exposition.
- (obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
- An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
- The first prototype was unveiled at an exposition.
- (authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
- Coordinate terms: disquisition, dissertation, treatise
- I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.
- (authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
- (music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
- The abandonment of an unwanted child.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editaction of exposing
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action of putting something out to public view
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action of declaring or describing
essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail
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music: opening section of a fugue
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ “exposition, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2022.
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French esposicion, borrowed from Latin expositiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editexposition f (plural expositions)
- exposition
- exhibition
- exposure
Further reading
edit- “exposition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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