world's fair

noun

1. a large international exposition with exhibitions of arts, crafts, industrial and agricultural products, scientific achievements, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of world's fair¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

At that year’s St. Louis World’s Fair, Hrdlička gathered some 200 brains and skeletons, mostly of Native Americans, who died during the fair.

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Disneyland turned outward in 1966 with the arrival, from the New York World’s Fair, of It’s a Small World, a globalist approach at unity after long periods of political upheaval.

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He was brought in relatively late to the project that would become “Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln”; the long-running show features a robotic Abraham Lincoln and debuted at New York’s 1964 World’s Fair and was installed at Disneyland the following year.

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He has upcoming tours leading the London Symphony in Spain and the Berlin Philharmonic at the World’s Fair, Expo 2025, in Osaka, Japan.

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Sherman wrote the verse to celebrate the song’s 60th anniversary, as the attraction opened at the New York World’s Fair in 1964 before being installed at Disneyland in 1966.

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