English-French translations for exposition

• commentaire
• description
  Des exposés circonstanciés donnaient lieu à des descriptions brouillonnes englobant la famille, les convictions philosophiques ou religieuses ou encore le sexe. Elaborate expositions used to turn everything upside down and used to touch on family, belief and authority.
• excuse
• explication
• exposition
  Selon les estimations de la police de la ville, quelque 30 000 personnes se seraient réunies entre le Parc des Expositions et la Place de la République. The Strasbourg police estimate that some 30 000 people have gathered between the Parc des Expositions and the Place de la République.
• salon

Definition of exposition

• The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight
• The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place
• An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail
• An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed
• The abandonment of an unwanted child
• The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show

Examples

• This essay has too much exposition in it.
• My reviewer said she couldnt picture the setting for my story, so Im improving the exposition.
• The first prototype was unveiled at an exposition.
• I turned my research into an exposition on the traditional music of Borneo.

Related words

• expositio
• World Exposition
• universal Exposition