Word a Day
showcase
What does showcase mean?
showcase (noun): a setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use showcase in a sentence?
- The showcase was crowded again. (Tatoeba sentence #11833317 by Amastan, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce showcase?
/ˈʃoʊˌkeɪs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does showcase come from?
From show + case.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “showcase” mean?
a setting, occasion, or medium for exhibiting something or someone, especially in an attractive or favorable aspect
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the branch of science concerned with the study of the properties and interactions of space, time, matter and energy
Not quite: that's what physics means.
a grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied
Not quite: that's what sentence means.
one of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation
Not quite: that's what taste means.
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