Pageant vs Exhibition - What's the difference?
pageant | exhibition |
An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.
A spectacular ceremony.
A beauty pageant.
An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
A large scale public showing of objects or products.
(UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
As nouns the difference between pageant and exhibition
is that pageant is an elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.As a verb pageant
is to exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.pageant
English
(wikipedia pageant)Alternative forms
* pageaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (elaborate public display) spectacle * (beauty pageant) beauty pageantDerived terms
* pageantry * beauty pageantexhibition
English
(wikipedia exhibition)Noun
(en noun)- There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
- a boat exhibition
- He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
