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display
noun as in public showing; spectacle
Strongest matches
act, array, demonstration, example, exhibit, parade, presentation
Strong matches
affectation, arrangement, blaze, bravura, dash, exhibition, expo, exposition, exposure, fanfare, flourish, frame-up, frippery, front, layout, manifestation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pageant, panorama, pedantry, pomp, pretension, pretentiousness, revelation, sample, scheme, shine, showboat, splash, splendor, splurge, spread, unfolding, vanity
Weak matches
verb as in show for public viewing, effect
Strongest matches
advertise, boast, demonstrate, disclose, emblazon, exhibit, expose, feature, flash, flaunt, illustrate, open, perform, present, promote, publish, represent, reveal, unveil
Strong matches
arrange, bare, betray, brandish, evidence, evince, expand, extend, flourish, glaze, grandstand, impart, manifest, model, parade, promulgate, showcase, sport, uncover, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unroll, vamp
Weak matches
bring to view, lay bare, lay out, make clear, make known, open out, set out, show off, spread out, stretch out, trot out
Example Sentences
Upon entering the center, there is a small display profiling the artist and her unusual career: a tattered copy of that Newsweek cover sits on the wall.
They were never as far off the pace in Scotland as the current crew, and never displayed the kind of incredible turbulence that has been so pervasive this season.
After watching his side burgled in their own home by an increasingly familiar Rangers away Europa League display, the Portuguese landed far more blows on the visitors than his team had managed.
While the overarching theme of Beija-Flor's parade was a tribute to its late director, it also featured floats with pyrotechnic displays and dancers dressed as devils.
Investigators said in November that she and her husband displayed a "pattern of behaviour" in which they benefited personally, and the public would "understandably feel misled".
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When To Use
What are other ways to say display?
Display applies to intentionally conspicuous show: a great display of wealth. Show often indicates an external appearance that may or may not accord with actual facts: a show of modesty. Ostentation is vain, ambitious, pretentious, or offensive display: tasteless and vulgar ostentation. Pomp suggests such a show of dignity and authority as characterizes a ceremony of state: The coronation was carried out with pomp and splendor.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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