2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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. --Shak.
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]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
exposition
n 1: an interpretation of the meaning of something [syn: {expounding},
{construal}]
2: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for
public display [syn: {exhibition}, {expo}]
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