different between exhibition vs concert

English

Etymology

From Old French exhibicion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ks??b???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

exhibition (countable and uncountable, plural exhibitions)

1. An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
2. A large-scale public showing of objects or products.

   There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.

   a boat exhibition

3. A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative, a shamfeul exhibition or a disgusting exhibition
4. (Britain) 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.

   • 2016, Jonathan Meades, ‘Inside Job’, Literary Review, November:

     Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.

5. (sports) A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.

Derived terms

• exhibitionism
• exhibitionist
• make an exhibition of oneself
• Exhibition Road

Related terms

• exposition

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhibiti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zi.bi.sj??/

Noun

exhibition f (plural exhibitions)

1. (sports) exhibition, friendly
2. (document) presentation, production
3. showing off, outrageous behaviour

Derived terms

• match d'exhibition
• exhibitionnisme
• exhibitionniste

Further reading

• “exhibition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto. Doublet of concerto.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s??t/
  • (US) enPR: k?nsûrt?, IPA^(key): /k?n?s?t/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?t/
  • (US) enPR: kän?s?rt, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

concert (third-person singular simple present concerts, present participle concerting, simple past and past participle concerted)

1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.

   • It was concerted to begin the siege in March.

2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan […] the campaign.

3. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.

   • The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert the matter with Talbot.

Translations

Noun

concert (countable and uncountable, plural concerts)

1. (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
2. (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
3. (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

   I'm going to the rock concert on Friday.

   Synonym: gig

Derived terms

• concertmaster
• in concert

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (kons?to)
• ? Korean: ??? (konseoteu)
• ? Thai: ????????? (k??n-s???t)

Translations

Further reading

• Concert in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Noun

concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

• concertista

Related terms

• concertar

Further reading

• “concert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “concert” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “concert” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “concert” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?rt/
• Hyphenation: con?cert
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

concert n (plural concerten, diminutive concertje n)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

• concertgebouw
• concertmeester
• concertzaal

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konsert
• ? Indonesian: konser
• ? West Frisian: konsert

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian concerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s??/

Noun

concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: concert
• ? Turkish: konser

Further reading

• “concert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• concret

Romanian

Etymology

From French concert

Noun

concert n (plural concerte)

1. concert

Declension