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Show, an artistic production, e.g., a:

• • Concert
  • Radio show
  • Television show
  • Theatre production
• Show (fair), associated with agriculture and animal husbandry
• Trade fair or trade show

Wiktionary

1. To display, to have somebody see (something).
2. To bestow; to confer.
3. To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
4. To guide or escort.
5. To put in an appearance; show up.
6. To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
7. To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.

Etymology

From Middle English schewen, schawen, scheawen, from Old English scēawian (“to look, look at, exhibit, display”), from Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, see”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”); see haw, gaum, caveat, caution.

Cognate with Scots shaw (“to show”), Saterland Frisian scoe (“to look, behold”), Dutch schouwen (“to inspect, view”), German schauen (“to see, behold”), Danish skue (“to behold”), Icelandic skygna (“to spy, behold, see”). Related to sheen.

See also

• Show business
• Sideshow
• Showing