noun · verb · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/dɪsˈpleɪ/
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South-Asia:/ˈɖɪsˌple/
rhymes with -eɪ
CMU ARPABET:D IH0 S P L EY1
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A show or spectacle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
The trapeze artist put on an amazing acrobatic display.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A piece of work to be presented visually.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
Pupils are expected to produce a wall display about a country of their choice.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cardboard display
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Narrower terms: histrionics, production, sackcloth and ashes
18
verb
Meaning 18
to show, make visible or apparent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month
Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?
National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: expose, exhibit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: show
Narrower terms: open, produce, bring forth, hold up, bench, moon, flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank, brandish, model, pose, sit, posture, pillory, gibbet
19
verb
Meaning 19
attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woo, court, romance, solicit
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
204 source translations are retained for this English entry.