show – English noun declension

English noun forms of show

Noun: show
Singularshow
Pluralshows

Sample Sentences

  • There were a thousand people at the show.
  • Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • art show;  dog show
  • Represented by Olney Gleason gallery, she was the subject of a 2025 solo show at the MSU Broad Art Museum in Michigan and recently unveiled a permanent installation at the Princeton University Art Museum. [2026 May 26, Julie Belcove, “Farm Fresh”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 93:]
  • radio show;  television show
  • They performed in the show.
  • I spotted my neighbour on the morning TV show.
  • Every day I do my morning show. [2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)]
  • Let's catch a show.
  • I'm taking the kids to the show on Tuesday.
  • E. C. McEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds [1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6:]
  • Let's get on with the show.
  • Let's get this show on the road.
  • They went on an international road show to sell the shares to investors.
  • It was Apple's usual dog and pony show.
  • show of force
  • I envy none their pageantry and show. [1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC:]
  • The dog sounds ferocious but it's all show.
  • So may the outward shows be least themselves:
  • The world is still deceived with ornament. [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the show.
  • Beware of the scribes,[…]which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 20:46-47:]
  • He through the midst unmarked,
  • In show plebeian angel militant
  • Of lowest order, passed. [1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • A subaltern, wearing a glengarry, came out of a house, playing with the nose of a shell. He walked a little way with me.
  • “Going into the show?” [1918, Denis Garstin, The Shilling Soldiers, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 116:]
  • Iron Springs offers a guided clam dig for first timers or those who are rusty at spotting the clam's show at low tide. It includes a license and all the equipment you'll need to catch your limit on Copalis Beach […] [2014, Karen Gaudette Brewer, Seafood Lover's Pacific Northwest, page 128:]

Etymology

From Middle English schewe, from the verb (schewen). See: Middle English Nouns 'schewe'.

Verbs referencing "show"

Danish Nouns show, Finnish Nouns show, French Nouns show, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns show, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns show, Romanian Nouns show, Swedish Nouns show, English Nouns sheen, Finnish Nouns kaava, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sjå, German Nouns Show, Catalan Nouns xou, Irish Nouns seó.