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English

Alternative forms

• shew (archaic)
• shewe (obsolete)
• showe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English sc?awian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-Germanic *skaww?n? (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.

Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Saterland Frisian scoe (“to look, behold”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”), Icelandic skygna (“to spy, behold, see”). Related to sheen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American): enPR: sh?, IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

show (third-person singular simple present shows, present participle showing, simple past showed or (archaic) shew, past participle shown or (now rare, US) showed)

1. (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
2. (transitive) To bestow; to confer.

   to show mercy; to show favour; (dialectal) show me the salt please

3. (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     A report this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research showed that the glacier has lost 60 percent of its mass.

4. (transitive) To guide or escort.

5. (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.

   • Just such she shows before a rising storm.
6. (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.

7. (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
8. (intransitive, racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.

9. (obsolete) To have a certain appearance, such as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

Usage notes

• The past participle shown was uncommon before the 19th century, but is now the preferred form in standard English. In the UK, showed is regarded as archaic or dialectal. In the US, it is considered a standard variant form, but shown is more common. Garner's Modern American Usage favors shown over showed as past participle and claims it is mandatory for passives.
• In the past, shew was used as a past-tense form and shewed as a past participle of this verb; both forms are now archaic.

Synonyms

• (display): display, indicate, point out, reveal, exhibit
• (indicate a fact to be true): demonstrate, prove
• (put in an appearance): arrive, show up

Antonyms

• (display): conceal, cover up, hide
• (indicate a fact to be true): disprove, refute

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• showcase
• showdown

Noun

show (countable and uncountable, plural shows)

1. (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
2. (countable) An exhibition of items.

3. (countable) A broadcast program/programme.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Every day I do my morning show.

4. (countable) A movie.

5. (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural show.
6. A project or presentation.

   Let's get on with the show.   Let's get this show on the road.   They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.   It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.

7. (countable) A demonstration.

8. (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
   • 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame

     I envy none their pageantry and show.

9. Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
   • 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

     So may the outward shows be least themselves:

     The world is still deceived with ornament.

10. (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.

11. (mining, obsolete) A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
12. (archaic) Pretence.
13. (archaic) Sign, token, or indication.
14. (obsolete) Semblance; likeness; appearance.

    • Beware of the scribes, […] which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers.
15. (obsolete) Plausibility.
16. (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.

Synonyms

• (exhibition): exhibition, exposition
• (demonstration): demonstration, illustration, proof
• (broadcast program(me)): program(me)
• (mere display with no substance): façade, front, superficiality
• (baseball): big leagues

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• showman
• showpiece
• show-stopper
• show-stopping

References

Anagrams

• Hows, how's, hows, who's, whos

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Hyphenation: show

Noun

show m (plural shows, diminutive showtje n)

1. A show (entertainment).

Derived terms

• modeshow
• showbiz
• showen
• talkshow

Finnish

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ou?/, [??o?u?]
• IPA^(key): /??o?/, [??o??]
• IPA^(key): /?so?/, [?s?o??]

Noun

show

1. show (entertainment)

Usage notes

In plural usually substituted with a synonym, as the word does not easily fit into any Finnish declension category.

Declension

Compounds

• jääshow
• lavashow
• muotishow
• ravintolashow
• televisioshow
• valoshow

Synonyms

• esitys, näytös

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o/

Noun

show m (plural shows)

1. (Anglicism) show

Hungarian

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??o?]
• Homophone: só
• Hyphenation: show
• Rhymes: -?o?

Noun

show (plural show-k)

1. show (entertainment, programme, production, performance)

Declension

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/, /??u/
• Rhymes: -??, -?u

Noun

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa or showene)

1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

Derived terms

• moteshow
• sceneshow

References

• “show” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/, /??u/
• Rhymes: -??, -?u

Noun

show n (definite singular showet, indefinite plural show, definite plural showa)

1. a show (play, concert, entertainment)

Derived terms

• moteshow
• sceneshow

References

• “show” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• chou (rare), xou (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English show.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??ow/

Noun

show m (plural shows)

1. show (a entertainment performance event)

   Synonyms: espetáculo, apresentação

   1. (especially) concert (musical presentation)
2. (slang) an act or performance that demonstrates high skill; spectacle; display; feat

3. (slang, often used in dar um show) the action of crying or yelling out loud in order to protest or complain about something, often in the context of a discussion or argument

Derived terms

• dar um show
• show de bola

Adjective

show (invariable, comparable)

1. (Brazil, slang) amazing; awesome

   Synonyms: espetacular, excelente, maravilhoso

Spanish

Etymology

From English show.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ou/, [??ou?]

• IPA^(key): /?t??ou/, [?t??ou?]

• IPA^(key): /?sou/, [?sou?]

Noun

show m (plural shows)

1. show
2. (informal) a scandal
3. spectacle
4. an exhibition motivated action or thing

Swedish

Etymology

From English show.

Noun

show c

1. show; a play, dance, or other entertainment.

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”), from Late Latin ball? (“to dance”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæle?/, /bæl?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /bælæe/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /b?læe/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /b?le?/, /b?l??/
• (General American) enPR: b?-l??, b??l?(') IPA^(key): /bæ?le?/, /?bæ(?)le?/
• Rhymes: -æle?, -æli, -e?
• Hyphenation: bal?let

Noun

ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)

1. A classical form of dance.
2. A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
3. The company of persons who perform this dance.
4. (music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
5. (heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
6. (figuratively) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
   • 1990, Historic Preservation: Quarterly of the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings (volumes 42-43)

     Food preparation on a potager no doubt became a kitchen ballet in which pans were constantly shifted, coals constantly replenished, and grates shaken out.

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     Henry Payton joined Alan on the sidelines during the conclusion of the oddly delicate ballet known as On-Scene Investigation.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ballet (third-person singular simple present ballets, present participle balleting, simple past and past participle balleted)

1. To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
   • 2014 Rutherford's Vascular Surgery E-Book - Page 1340

     Situations that typically require longer iliac limbs than the measurements suggest include extreme iliac tortuosity, “balleting” of the limbs (Endurant and Excluder) (Fig. 90-3), and the need to extend to the external iliac arteries. It these anatomic circumstances, it is prudent to choose a longer length when in doubt.

   • 2016 Jacob Russell Dring, "Endless the Chase"

     Unfortunately, he could only sustain so much abuse. Footfalls approached. Kanoa's lips smacked and his jaw hung open. His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity. He felt beyond sick, and his world spun immensely. A garbled voice of incoherency seemed to be his only link to this realm of consciousness.

   • 2017 Num Nums "A Total Bust a Move" The ZhuZhus

     Frankie's obviously going to ballet her way to the trophy.

See also

• mime
• modern dance

Anagrams

• betall

Catalan

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Further reading

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

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).

Noun

ballet

1. ballet (dance tradition and style)

Danish

Etymology

Either from French ballet or directly from Italian balletto, the diminutive form of ballo (“dance, ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?t/, [b?a?l?d?]

Noun

ballet c (singular definite balletten, plural indefinite balletter)

1. ballet

Inflection

Descendants

• ? Greenlandic: balletti

Further reading

• “ballet” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??l?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?let
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• balletles
• balletzaal

French

Etymology

From Italian balletto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.l?/

Noun

ballet m (plural ballets)

1. ballet

Derived terms

• ballet à ski
• ballet-féerie
• corps de ballet
• maître de ballet

Descendants

• ? English: ballet
• ? Portuguese: balé, balê
• ? Swedish: balett
• ? Thai: ??????? (ban-lêe)
• ? Vietnamese: ba lê

Further reading

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

German

Verb

ballet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of ballen

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bäl???t?]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?bal?et]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bal.let/, [?b?l??t?]

Verb

ballet

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of ball? (“to dance”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palleh(t)/

Verb

ballet

1. inflection of ballat:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular past indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ballet n

1. definite singular of ball (Etymology 2)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ballet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bale/, [?ba.le]

• IPA^(key): /ba?let/, [ba?let?]

Noun

ballet m (uncountable)

1. ballet