Display Meaning
/dɪsˈpleɪ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA show or spectacle.
nounA piece of work to be presented visually.
Sentence Examples
The museum will display ancient artifacts.
She displayed remarkable courage under pressure.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum will ____ ancient artifacts from the Roman Empire next month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The author doesn't ____ much talent in his book.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicāre (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The festival has been popular with locals since it began in 2003. This year, in addition to the skies over the Siying Archway Bridge (西瀛虹橋) near the main town of Makung (馬公市), there will be fireworks displays over the Penghu Sea-Crossing Bridge (跨海大橋) in Paisha Township (白沙鄉) and the Kuanri Recreational Area (觀日遊憩區) in Huhsi Township (湖西鄉)."
— 2008 May 9, Ian Bartholomew, “Get a bang out of Penghu”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2008, Features, page 15:
"All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place."
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
"The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,[…]."
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
"Being the very fellow which of late / Diſplaid ſo ſawcily againſt your Highneſſe […]"
— c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 293:
"The Englishmen[…]display their ranks and[…]press hard upon their enemies."
— 1610, William Camden, translated by Philémon Holland, Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum will ____ ancient artifacts from the Roman Empire next month.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The author doesn't ____ much talent in his book.