Symposium vs Exhibition - What's the difference?
symposium | exhibition |
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.
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 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
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(en-noun)exhibition
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(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.