'Exposition' definitions:
Definition of 'exposition'
From: WordNet
noun
A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic [syn: exposition, expounding]
noun
A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition, exposition, expo]
noun
An account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; "we would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background"
noun
(music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
Definition of 'Exposition'
From: GCIDE
- Exposition \Ex`po*si"tion\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878. [A Gallicism] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exposition'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allegorization,
- anacrusis,
- apocalypse,
- article,
- assignment,
- auto show,
- baring,
- bass passage,
- bazaar,
- boat show,
- bourdon,
- bridge,
- burden,
- cadence,
- causerie,
- chalk talk,
- chorus,
- clarification,
- coda,
- commentary,
- commercial complex,
- construction,
- cosmorama,
- cracking,
- critique,
- cyclorama,
- decipherment,
- declaration,
- decoding,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- demythologization,
- descant,
- description,
- development,
- diorama,
- disclosing,
- disclosure,
- discourse,
- discovering,
- discovery,
- discussion,
- display,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- division,
- editing,
- elucidation,
- emendation,
- emporium,
- enactment,
- enlightenment,
- enunciation,
- essay,
- etude,
- euhemerism,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exegesis,
- exemplification,
- exercise,
- exhibit,
- exhibition,
- explanation,
- explication,
- expo,
- expose,
- exposure,
- expounding,
- fair,
- feature,
- figure,
- first approach,
- flea fair,
- flea market,
- folderol,
- georama,
- harangue,
- harmonic close,
- homework,
- homily,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- instruction,
- interlude,
- intermezzo,
- interpretation,
- introductory phrase,
- introductory study,
- laying bare,
- lecture,
- lecture-demonstration,
- lesson,
- light,
- light show,
- lucubration,
- manifestation,
- market,
- market overt,
- marketplace,
- mart,
- measure,
- memoir,
- monograph,
- moral,
- moral lesson,
- morality,
- moralization,
- morceau,
- movement,
- musical phrase,
- musical sentence,
- myriorama,
- note,
- object lesson,
- open market,
- opening,
- ornament,
- ostentation,
- outline,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- pandect,
- panorama,
- paper,
- parade,
- paragraph,
- part,
- passage,
- patefaction,
- performance,
- period,
- phantasmagoria,
- phrase,
- piece,
- plaza,
- pomp,
- preachment,
- preliminary study,
- presentation,
- presentment,
- production,
- projection,
- prolegomenon,
- psychedelic show,
- rationale,
- reason,
- recital,
- recitation,
- refrain,
- removing the veil,
- representation,
- research paper,
- resolution,
- response,
- retrospective,
- revealing,
- revealment,
- revelation,
- rialto,
- ritornello,
- screed,
- section,
- sermon,
- set task,
- shifting scene,
- shopping center,
- shopping mall,
- shopping plaza,
- show,
- showing,
- showing up,
- showup,
- sight,
- simplification,
- sketch,
- skull session,
- solution,
- special article,
- spectacle,
- stage show,
- stanza,
- staple,
- statement,
- strain,
- street market,
- stripping,
- study,
- survey,
- tableau,
- tableau vivant,
- tailpiece,
- talk,
- task,
- teaching,
- term paper,
- theme,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- trade fair,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- tutti,
- tutti passage,
- uncloaking,
- uncovering,
- unfolding,
- unfoldment,
- unlocking,
- unmasking,
- unveiling,
- unwrapping,
- variation,
- varnishing day,
- vernissage,
- verse