Definition of Jolson

1. Noun. United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Jolson

Joint Chiefs
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Direct Attack Munition
Jojo
Jolene
Joliet
Joliot
Joliot-Curie
Jolles' test
Jolliet
Jolly
Jolly's reaction
Jolly Roger
Jolly Rogers
Jolly bodies
Jolson
Jolyon
Jomada I
Jomada II
Jominian
Jomo Kenyata
Jon
Jon.
Jonah
Jonah crab
Jonah crabs
Jonas
Jonas Edward Salk
Jonas Salk
Jonathan

Literary usage of Jolson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monarchs of Minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to Date by Edward Le Roy Rice (1911)
"jolson (Albert Joelson). Seldom in the annals of minstrelsy has a performer risen to such heights, and achieved such success in the brief period that this ..."

2. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"(jolson died at Cambridge on Jan. 20, 1760. Besides the papers sent to the Royal Society ... (jolson was succeeded in 1760 by Waring, a fellow of Magdalene. ..."

3. The Hohenzollerns in America: With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other by Stephen Leacock (1919)
"Mr. Al jolson will remain kneeling on the stage till the Gubernatorial All Highest has seated itself. Mr. jolson will then, ..."

4. Shouts and Murmurs: Echoes of a Thousand and One First Nights by Alexander Woollcott (1922)
"He says so in Russian and appeals plaintively to Al jolson to play interpreter. Master jolson, who knows two words of Russian at the most, is not daunted by ..."

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