1 ~ (sth) (at / in...) to show sth in a public place for people to enjoy or to give them information:
[VN] They will be exhibiting their new designs at the trade fairs this spring. * Only one painting was exhibited in the artist's lifetime. * [V] He exhibits regularly in several local art galleries.
2 [VN] (written) to show clearly that you have or feel a particular feeling, quality or ability:
The patient exhibited signs of fatigue and memory loss.
Part of speech: noun
1 an object or a work of art put in a public place, for example a museum, so that people can see it:
The museum contains some interesting exhibits on Spanish rural life.
2 a thing that is used in a court of law to prove that sb is guilty or not guilty:
The first exhibit was a knife which the prosecution claimed was the murder weapon.
3 (AmE) = EXHIBITION(1):
The new exhibit will tour a dozen US cities next year.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for exhibit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is exhibit a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, exhibit is tagged as verb.
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