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Definition of Showman
1. Noun. A person skilled at making effective presentations.
2. Noun. A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments.
Generic synonyms: Booker, Booking Agent
Specialized synonyms: Exhibitioner, Exhibitor, Shower, Organ-grinder, Porn Merchant, Pornographer
Specialized synonyms: Barnum, P. T. Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill Cody, Cody, William F. Cody, William Frederick Cody, Diaghilev, Sergei Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, D'oyly Carte, Richard D'oyly Carte, Hurok, Sol Hurok, Solomon Hurok, Charles Ringling, Ringling
Definition of Showman
1. n. One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Definition of Showman
1. Noun. a person who owns or runs a fairground. ¹
2. Noun. a theatrical impresario or promoter, someone resembling this. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Showman
1. a theatrical producer [n SHOWMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Showman
Literary usage of Showman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1875)
"I could see that my allusion to him as a " showman " was by no mean? pleasant,
which leads me to recount the circumstances under which I was first brought ..."
2. England Under the House of Hanover: Its History and Condition During the by Thomas Wright (1848)
"The simple auditor of this fine speech, totally unconscious of the process to
which his pocket is being subjected, observes, " Mayhap it may, Master showman ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"A paragraph even got into the local newspapers to the same effect, and this was
just what they wanted; for a showman who had an exhibition in the town, ..."
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