exposition
exposition is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
- noun. (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
- 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. a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic
- noun. a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
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