Festival vs. Exposition

Festivaladjective

Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

Festivalnoun

An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

Festivalnoun

In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

Festivalnoun

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Festivaladjective

Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.

Festivalnoun

a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration

Festivalnoun

an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place);

Festivalnoun

a day or period of celebration, typically for religious reasons

Festivalnoun

an organized series of concerts, plays, or films, typically one held annually in the same place

Festival

A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid.

Expositionnoun

The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.

Expositionnoun

(authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe the setting, characters and other non-plot elements.

Expositionnoun

(obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.

Expositionnoun

An event at which goods, artwork and cultural displays are open for the public to view.

Expositionnoun

(authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.

Expositionnoun

(authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.

Expositionnoun

(music) The opening section of a fugue; the opening section of a movement in sonata form

Expositionnoun

The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.

Expositionnoun

The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

Expositionnoun

The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.

Expositionnoun

Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.

Expositionnoun

A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.

Expositionnoun

a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic

Expositionnoun

a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display

Expositionnoun

an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse;

Expositionnoun

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

Expositionnoun

the part of a movement, especially in sonata form, in which the principal themes are first presented.

Expositionnoun

a large public exhibition of art or trade goods

Expositionnoun

the action of making something public