world's fair

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of world's fair

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Walt Disney’s father had worked on the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and as a boy, Disney grew up going to Electric Park, an amusement park near his childhood home.

From The Wall Street Journal

In a part of town where the facades of pastel buildings graciously swerve like waterfront breezes and ornamental friezes stretch upward like ziggurats—the Miami Beach Art Deco District—you hardly need to shift perspective when you enter an exhibition at the Wolfsonian–FIU museum and gaze at streamlined structures from Chicago’s 1933-34 World’s Fair, or the pointed Trylon and gleaming Perisphere of New York’s 1939-40 World’s Fair.

From The Wall Street Journal

For this writer, the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York was exhilarating.

From The Wall Street Journal

Will the 2030 world’s fair in Saudi Arabia transform cultures or inspire visitors?

From The Wall Street Journal

The car — first introduced in 1964 at the New York World’s Fair as a sporty, compact coup with just a little bit of an edge — is given a hero’s treatment.

From Los Angeles Times