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expo

expo

54 3.2
A large public show where companies and artists display products or art
  • noun
  • /ˈɛkspoʊ/
translation icon : exposición
  • Um, are you girls headed to the Sci-Fi Expo in DC?
  • students attend expos
  • conference and expo
  • an expo was held

So a couple weeks ago I went to a train Expo.

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Examples

  • This is Karen's first expo.

  • Now, the expo runs all weekend, so I won't be back 'til Sunday.

  • You want to go to the expo, right?

  • I am at Player Expo, the hottest ticket in town.

  • I was at the tech expo.

  • So you are covering the yard and tool expo, right?

  • Last just last week, I was hosting the Singapore Expo event there.

  • So we're at VRLA, which is the biggest VR Expo here in Los Angeles.

  • Find out more about the National Sustainable Design Expo and the P3 Sustainable Design Challenge at www.epa.gov/P3.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Every year, the city hosts an art expo where local artists showcase their paintings and sculptures.

Synonyms

exhibition
vsexpo
136 3.3

A public display of objects like paintings or old items in a museum

is larger in scale and can include services beyond collections
exposition
vsexpo
16 6.1

A large public show of things like art or new products

is the shorter informal form of the same public display
showing
vsexpo
4 2.5

An exhibition of art or objects for people to see

is larger and more public, covering major events rather than one show

How Big

expo
54 3.2
exhibition
136 3.3
fair
404 1.0
craft fair
144 3.0
booth
292 1.4

Surface Forms

expo singular
expos plural

Etymology

The word expo is short for exposition, built from ex- meaning 'out' and the root pon/pose meaning 'to put', the same idea you see in position. So an expo is a place where things are 'put out' for people to see.