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Symposium vs Exhibition - What's the difference?

symposium | exhibition |

As nouns the difference between symposium and exhibition

is that symposium is a conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations while exhibition is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

symposium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
  • (in ancient Greece ) A drinking party, especially one with intellectual discussion.
  • exhibition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (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:
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself