talent show
noun
: a show consisting of a series of individual performances (such as singing) by amateurs who may be selected for special recognition as performing talent
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The dramatic saga began after RuPaul chose Monét and Shea Couleé as the winners of the talent show, and added three Legendary Legend Stars to their tallies. 
Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 22 July 2022 Kep1er is a 9-member girl group, formerly known as Girls Planet 999 which achieved fame on a talent show that aired on CJ ENM’s Mnet channel. Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 June 2022 Fans enthusiastically embraced the song making their own videos for TikTok and most recently, a young girl shared a video of herself singing the song in her camp talent show. Michele Amabile Angermiller, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Segura said her dad, an Army veteran, taught her to sing the national anthem, and following a debut performance at her school talent show, she was recruited to sing the anthem at Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers games. Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022 By her first elementary school talent show, she was hooked. Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022 At the end of the school year, staff and students were celebrating the fifth grade graduation with a talent show. Fox News, 21 July 2022 Other boys tease him, but Oliver rather miraculously silences them with a strong showing at the school talent show. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 Producers ensure that the first challenge is a talent show, just to drive home all the reasons these celebrity relatives are not famous themselves. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 July 2022 See More
Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 22 July 2022 Kep1er is a 9-member girl group, formerly known as Girls Planet 999 which achieved fame on a talent show that aired on CJ ENM’s Mnet channel. Patrick Frater, Variety, 23 June 2022 Fans enthusiastically embraced the song making their own videos for TikTok and most recently, a young girl shared a video of herself singing the song in her camp talent show. Michele Amabile Angermiller, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Segura said her dad, an Army veteran, taught her to sing the national anthem, and following a debut performance at her school talent show, she was recruited to sing the anthem at Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers games. Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2022 By her first elementary school talent show, she was hooked. Mandy Mclaren, The Courier-Journal, 8 June 2022 At the end of the school year, staff and students were celebrating the fifth grade graduation with a talent show. Fox News, 21 July 2022 Other boys tease him, but Oliver rather miraculously silences them with a strong showing at the school talent show. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 Producers ensure that the first challenge is a talent show, just to drive home all the reasons these celebrity relatives are not famous themselves. Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1953, in the meaning defined above