display
Syllables: dis·play/dɪsˈpleɪ/
display noun: a show or spectacle.
Noun
display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)
- A show or spectacle.
- The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
- The festival has been popular with locals since it began in 2003. This year, in addition to the skies over the Siying Archway Bridge (西瀛虹橋) near the main town of Makung (馬公市), there will be fireworks displays over the Penghu Sea-Crossing Bridge (跨海大橋) in Paisha Township (白沙鄉) and the Kuanri...2008 May 9, Ian Bartholomew, “Get a bang out of Penghu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2008, Features, page 15
- A piece of work to be presented visually.
- Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
- A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
- Synonyms:
- cardboard display
- An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
Verb
display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)
- To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…].1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
- To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line, deploy.
- The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies.1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court...
- To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
- To discover; to descry.
- And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
- To spread out, to unfurl.
- The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- splay
display meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
display in Hindi
- display, showing
- नुमाइश numāiś
display in Tamil
- காட்சிமுறை, காட்சியமைவு, காட்சி வரிசை, காட்சி ஒழுங்கு, கண்காட்சி, கவர்ச்சிமிக்க காட்சித் தொகுப்பு
display in Marathi
- display, show; an impressive or decorative presentation
- देखावा dekhāvā
display in Urdu
- دکھاوا, جلوہ, نمود, نمائش, دکھانا
More languagesFewer languages
- display in Bengali
- প্রদর্শনী prodorśoni
- display in Malayalam
- ഡിസ്പ്ലേ ḍisplē, പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക pradaṟśippikkuka
- display in Kannada
- ನಿರಿಗೆ, ತೋರಿಕೆ, ತೋರುವಿಕೆ, ಕಾಣಿಸುವಿಕೆ
- display in Gujarati
- પ્રદર્શિત કરો
- display in Sanskrit
- इयर्ति íyarti, ऋ ṛ
- display in Nepali
- प्रदर्शन, प्रदर्शन गर्ने
- display in Arabic
- إِظْهَار ʔiẓhār, عَرْض ʕarḍ, شَاشَة šāša
- display in Malay
- paparan, mempertontonkan, mempertunjukkan, mempamerkan
- display in Indonesian
- layar, menampilkan, menayangkan
- display in Thai
- จอภาพ jɔɔ-pâap
- display in Vietnamese
- biểu hiện, trưng bày
Examples of display in a sentence
- A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.
- To display a number, you need to cast it to a string type.
- We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
Synonyms of display
- cardboard display
- splay
Forms of display
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | displays |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | displays |
| present participle | displaying |
| past participle | displayed |
| past | displayed |
Origin of display
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Words formed from display
- affect display
- air display
- codisplay
- courtship display
- DISP
- displayability
- displayable
- display cabinet
- display case
- displayer
- display kerchief
- display list
- display model
- display tearing
- display window
- distraction display
- diversionary display
- ferroelectric liquid-crystal display
- field emission display
- fireworks display
- flap display
- flip-disc display
- flip-disk display
- flip-dot display
- heads-up display
- head-up display
- holodisplay
- liquid crystal display
- liquid-crystal display
- microdisplay
- misdisplay
- nondisplayed
- on display
- organic electroluminescent display
- pay and display
- pay-and-display
- plasma display
- predisplay
- public display of affection
- redisplay
- refreshable display
- semi-display
- shoulder display
- split-flap display
- starburst display
- surface-conduction electron-emitter display
- undisplay
- undisplayed
- vacuum fluorescent display
- visual display unit
- volumetric display
Phrases with display
Words that rhyme with display
Questions about display
- What does display mean?
- Display means a show or spectacle.
- What is display in Hindi?
- Display in Hindi is नुमाइश (numāiś). See Display meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is display?
- Display can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce display?
- Display is pronounced /dɪsˈpleɪ/.
- What is the plural of display?
- The plural of display is displays.
Words near display in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: display (page history and authors); नुमाइश (Hindi) (page history and authors); display (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); देखावा (Marathi) (page history and authors); display (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); প্রদর্শনী (Bengali) (page history and authors); display (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); display (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); इयर्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); display (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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