Usually means: Introduction of background information, setting.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. exposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. exposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exposition, exposition: Wordnik
  7. exposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exposition: Wiktionary
  9. exposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Exposition, exposition: Dictionary.com
  13. exposition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. exposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Exposition (album), Exposition (disambiguation), Exposition (literary technique), Exposition (music), Exposition (narrative), Exposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Exposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. exposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. exposition: Rhymezone
  19. Exposition, exposition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. exposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. exposition: Free Dictionary
  22. exposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. exposition: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. exposition: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exposition: Encyclopedia

(Note: See expositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
noun:  (authorship) The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing, in nonfiction or in fiction; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe or explain a set of things (such as, in fiction, the setting, characters and other non-plot elements).
noun:  (obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
noun:  An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public.
noun:  (authorship) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
noun:  (authorship) An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed.
noun:  (music) The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue.
noun:  The abandonment of an unwanted child.

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