0 an event in which people compete to show who is the most skilled, especially at being entertaining
Of course, since correspondence theorists recognize the use of metonymy, they might respond that the name is merely a metonym for the anticipated winners of the talent contest.
When she was 11 years old, she won a national talent contest.
He was soon after entered into a talent contest.
They went on to win the talent contest after being ridiculed on previous occasions.
Everyone has to provide fancy dress and enter the talent contest.
There is plenty of gratuitous nostalgia... as well as an extremely tedious intrafamily talent contest performed after intermission.
When he was 11 years old, he participated in a local talent contest with a trio that he had formed.
Their break came in 1967 when they won a local talent contest.
