exposition
/ɛkspəˈzɪʃən/
exposition noun: the action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
Noun
exposition (countable and uncountable, plural expositions)
- The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
- I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.
- An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
- The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
- The abandonment of an unwanted child.
exposition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
exposition in Hindi
- action of putting something out to public view
- प्रदर्शनी pradarśanī
- action of declaring or describing
- प्रतिपादन pratipādan
- essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail
- व्याख्या vyākhyā
exposition in Tamil
- exposition
- பிடி piṭi
exposition in Urdu
- exposition, commentary
- تفسیر tafsīr, بھاشیہ bhāśya
- exposition, disclosure
- بیان bayān
exposition in Bengali
- action of declaring or describing
- বয়ান boẏan
- essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail
- বয়ান boẏan
More languagesFewer languages
- exposition in Malayalam
- വിശദീകരിക്കൽ, സ്പഷ്ടീകരണം, വിശദീകരണം, വ്യാഖ്യാനം
- exposition in Sanskrit
- वाद vāda
- exposition in Arabic
- مَعْرِض maʕriḍ
- exposition in Thai
- งานแสดง ngaan-sà-dɛɛng
- exposition in Vietnamese
- sự phơi, sự phơi bày
Examples of exposition in a sentence
- Conditioning would require exposition to any sentence before being uttered, which isn’t the case.
- Nearly all documentation of business processes should be skimmable, with the summaries clearly differentiated from the detailed expositions.
- The process, repeated, forms an exposition answered with a finale or counterexposition.
Forms of exposition
| plural | expositions |
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Origin of exposition
From 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.
Words formed from exposition
Phrases with exposition
Questions about exposition
- What does exposition mean?
- Exposition means the action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
- What is exposition in Hindi?
- Exposition in Hindi is प्रदर्शनी (pradarśanī), प्रतिपादन (pratipādan), व्याख्या (vyākhyā). See Exposition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is exposition?
- Exposition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce exposition?
- Exposition is pronounced /ɛkspəˈzɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of exposition?
- The plural of exposition is expositions.
Words near exposition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exposition (page history and authors); பிடி (Tamil) (page history and authors); بھاشیہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); exposition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); वाद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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