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Webster 1913 Edition

Exposition

Exˊpo-si′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
expositio
, fr.
exponere
,
expositum
: cf. F.
exposition
. See
Expound
.]
1.
The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
2.
The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
You know the law; your
exposition

Hath been most sound.
Shakespeare
3.
Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure;
as, an easterly
exposition
; an
exposition
to the sun.
[Obs.]
Arbuthnot.
4.
A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions;
as, the Paris
Exposition
of 1878
.
[A Gallicism]

Webster 1828 Edition

Exposition

EXPOSI'TION

,
Noun.
A laying open; a setting to public view.
1.
A situation in which a thing is exposed or laid open, or in which it has an unobstructed view, or in which a free passage to it is open; as, a house has an easterly exposition, an exposition to the south or to a southern prospect. The exposition gives a free access to the air or to the sun's rays.
2.
Explanation; interpretation; a laying open the sense or meaning of an author or of any passage in a writing.

Definition 2024

Exposition

Exposition

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German

Noun

Exposition f ‎(genitive Exposition, plural Expositionen)

  1. exposition (action of putting something out to public view)

Declension


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exposition

exposition

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English

Noun

exposition ‎(plural expositions)

  1. The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
  2. The act of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing.
  3. (obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
  4. (writing) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
  5. (writing) An opening section in fiction, including novel, play, and movie, by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed.
  6. (music) The opening section of a fugue; the opening section of a movement in sonata form

Etymology 2

From French exposition ‎(“exhibition”)

Noun

exposition ‎(plural expositions)

  1. The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
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French

Etymology

From Old French esposicion, a borrowing from Latin expositio, expositionem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛkspɔzisjɔ̃/

Noun

exposition f ‎(plural expositions)

  1. exposition
  2. exhibition
  3. exposure

Pronunciation

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