From Old French presentation (French présentation), from Latin praesentātiōnem, accusative singular of praesentātiō (“representation, exhibition”).
Morphologically present + -ation
presentation (countable and uncountable, plural presentations)
- The act of presenting, or something presented.
- A dramatic performance.
- An award given to someone on a special occasion.
- Money given as a wedding gift.
- A lecture or speech given in front of an audience.
- (medicine) The symptoms and other possible indications of disease, trauma, etc., that are exhibited by a patient who has sought, or has otherwise come to, the attention of a physician.
The presentation of the thirty-four-year-old male in the emergency room was slight fever, dilated pupils, and marked disorientation.
- (medicine) The position of the foetus in the uterus at birth.
- (mainly LGBT) Gender presentation; gender expression.
- (fencing) Offering one's blade for engagement by the opponent.
- (mathematics) The specification of a group by generators and relators.
- The act or right of offering a clergyman to the bishop or ordinary for institution in a benefice.
- (immunology) The preparation of antigen fragments during the immune response.
something presented to an audience
- Arabic: إِهْدَاء m (ʔihdāʔ), مَنْح m (manḥ)
- Armenian: ներկայացում (hy) (nerkayacʻum)
- Bulgarian: представление (bg) n (predstavlenie)
- Catalan: presentació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 顯示/显示 (zh) (xiǎnshì), 介紹/介绍 (zh) (jièshào), 簡報/简报 (zh) (jiǎnbào)
- Czech: prezentace (cs)
- Dutch: presentatie (nl) f, or less accurately voorstelling (nl) f, voordracht (nl)
- Esperanto: prezento
- Finnish: esitys (fi), esitelmä (fi)
- French: exposé (fr) m, présentation (fr) f, conférence (fr) f
- German: Vortrag (de) m, Präsentation (de) f, Vorstellung (de) f, Referat (de) n
- Hungarian: bemutató (hu), prezentáció (hu)
- Icelandic: afhending
- Irish: láithreoireacht f
- Italian: presentazione (it) f
- Japanese: プレゼンテーション (purezentēshon), プレゼン (ja) (purezen)
- Kazakh: тұсаукесер (kk) (tūsaukeser)
- Kyrgyz: бетачар (betacar)
- Maori: whakawhiwhinga
- Plautdietsch: Väadrach m
- Polish: prezentacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: apresentação (pt) f
- Romanian: prezentare (ro) f
- Russian: презента́ция (ru) f (prezentácija), представле́ние (ru) n (predstavlénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: taisbeanadh m
- Spanish: presentación (es) f, ponencia f
- Swedish: föredrag (sv) n, presentation (sv) c
- Turkish: sunum (tr), takdim (tr)
- Ukrainian: презента́ція f (prezentácija)
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presentation oblique singular, f (oblique plural presentations, nominative singular presentation, nominative plural presentations)
- presentation (act of presenting something or someone)
- presentation (demonstration)
From French présentation, from présenter + -ation, equivalent to presentera + -ation. Cognate with English presentation, German Präsentation, Norwegian Bokmål presentasjon, Norwegian Nynorsk presentasjon and Danish præsentation.
presentation c
- presentation
Gick presentationen av produkten bra?- Did the product presentation go well?
- introduction
Hon behöver ingen närmare presentation- She needs no further ["closer" - idiomatic] introduction