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Definition of showman in English: showmannounPlural showmen ˈʃəʊmənˈʃoʊmən 1A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus, fair, or other variety show. showmen inveigled the masses into circuses, fairgrounds, peep shows, theatres Example sentencesExamples - Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire.
- The land is owned by Silcock's, a well-known family of showmen who put on fairs around the North-west.
- They were acting like circus showmen, and their targets were elderly Atlantic City gambling types.
- This derives from the case in which two showmen were convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of presenting an indecent exhibition to those who paid.
- A number toured outback Queensland as travelling showmen later in that century.
- In the carnival, Stanton is the assistant to a phony medium, Madam Zeena, a perfect ancestor of modern showmen like John Edward and Sylvia Browne.
- Between these two extremes there are several mediate varieties - consisting of pedlars, showmen, harvest-men, and all that large class who live by either selling, showing, or doing something through the country.
- A substantial number of Italians who came to Britain as entertainers in the early part of the nineteenth century, especially the Punch and Judy showmen, organ grinders and pedlars of the 1840s.
- Just one year after the Lumiere brothers gave their first exhibition of projected motion pictures in Paris in 1885, film clips were shown in Shanghai by French and American showmen.
- A Circus boss told today how children abused customers and attacked showmen's caravans when his show came to York's Knavesmire.
- Since a showman has to play a variety of roles in order to make a living, Johnny augmented his repertoire with sideshow lecturing, fire eating, and swallowing swords and neon tubes.
- A showman might have exploited the discovery by presenting it to an audience and claiming it was evidence of some supernatural agency.
- The Upstagers present the light-hearted story of the American showman on July 15-19 at King's Hall.
- Early cinema performances were given in tents by travelling fairground showmen, and were then taken up by music-hall proprietors.
- Yimou has the eye of a painter, the grace of a dancer and the flamboyance of a circus showman.
- It all started about 50 years ago, when a few cowboy showmen decided to take an annual practice - the removal of rattlesnakes from their land - and make it into a spectacle.
- Lorenzo the Lion-Tamer was James Wilson's great-grandfather and one of the 19th century's great circus showmen - the equivalent of today's football star or pop-singer.
- Mr Birch's father was a showman travelling with fairs, while his mother joined the circus when she was 15.
- English Roma, Irish travellers, new travellers, showmen and circus people were all consulted.
- Pupils from Werneth School, in Oldham, met the professionals from the Moscow State Circus as the 200-year-old band of Russian showmen rolled into town during their UK tour.
Synonyms impresario, stage manager, publicist ringmaster, host, compère, master of ceremonies, MC presenter, anchorman, anchorwoman, anchorperson North American informal emcee - 1.1 A person skilled at entertaining, theatrical presentation or performance.
he's a great talker and showman but he lacks depth Example sentencesExamples - Yes, we weren't the greatest vocalist, dancers, or harp players, or anything, but we were good showmen.
- When he gets in the ring he's a real showman, he just comes up to you and shows off.
- Pete is a born entertainer and showman, thriving on being on stage with the audience under his control.
- A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
- We have only to see a skilled showman working his magic to realise how easy it is for the brain to be fooled into thinking the impossible while we are in full possession of our faculties.
- Each of these showmen altered the presentation to accommodate changing audiences.
- He was brash, extremely talented and a showman to the press and public, and for him running was an escape from a life that he would have spent working on a farm with his abusive father.
- Pugilists, criminals, showmen, and oddballs also captured the public fancy: P. T. Barnum was a great early impresario of this new world of celebrity.
- He is a performer - a downbeat and deadpan showman, but a showman nonetheless.
- Dillon was still the consummate showman and since he wasn't obligated to perform his back catalogue, he was able to be himself.
- Like all the best teachers, he was a great showman and his grand round presentations were occasionally enhanced with giant home made models of parasites and their vectors.
- All of which makes one wonder if Smuin isn't too competent for his own good at this point; he is a skilled showman, and audiences love him for it.
- King, known for his trademark electric hairdo, is perceived by most of the public as a clown-like showman who, though long-winded, is an entertaining character.
- This is bare-bones, disintegrating-nitrate-to-VHS-to-DVD imaging that does a disservice to the legacy of one of entertainment's truly stellar showmen.
- Blackton had failed to keep up with developments in film technique and his films were dramatically unsophisticated, but he was an expert showman.
- It's our job to entertain, and we're showmen, we put on a show.
- This is a showman who loves the performance for its own sake, not just for the status this case will bring him.
- When Matsui hears himself characterized as a showman or a performer, he laughs hard and then shakes his head so vigorously it appears his cap might pop off.
- He was great - of all the people that I know in the entertainment industry he was greatest showman, because he always changed his show.
- It's fair to say that Cowell makes great telly, and a day on the LA set of his show offers ample first-hand evidence of what a brilliant showman he is.
Synonyms entertainer, performer, player, artist, artiste, trouper, star, virtuoso extrovert, self-publicist, show-off, attention-seeker
Rhymes Bowman, Oklahoman, Oman, omen, Roman, showmen, yeoman, yeomen Definition of showman in US English: showmannounˈSHōmənˈʃoʊmən 1A person who produces or presents shows as a profession, especially the proprietor, manager, or MC of a circus, fair, or other variety show. showmen inveigled the masses into circuses, fairgrounds, peep shows, theaters Example sentencesExamples - The land is owned by Silcock's, a well-known family of showmen who put on fairs around the North-west.
- Between these two extremes there are several mediate varieties - consisting of pedlars, showmen, harvest-men, and all that large class who live by either selling, showing, or doing something through the country.
- Since a showman has to play a variety of roles in order to make a living, Johnny augmented his repertoire with sideshow lecturing, fire eating, and swallowing swords and neon tubes.
- Mr Birch's father was a showman travelling with fairs, while his mother joined the circus when she was 15.
- Early cinema performances were given in tents by travelling fairground showmen, and were then taken up by music-hall proprietors.
- They were acting like circus showmen, and their targets were elderly Atlantic City gambling types.
- This derives from the case in which two showmen were convicted of keeping a booth on Epsom Downs for the purpose of presenting an indecent exhibition to those who paid.
- It all started about 50 years ago, when a few cowboy showmen decided to take an annual practice - the removal of rattlesnakes from their land - and make it into a spectacle.
- A substantial number of Italians who came to Britain as entertainers in the early part of the nineteenth century, especially the Punch and Judy showmen, organ grinders and pedlars of the 1840s.
- Pupils from Werneth School, in Oldham, met the professionals from the Moscow State Circus as the 200-year-old band of Russian showmen rolled into town during their UK tour.
- A Circus boss told today how children abused customers and attacked showmen's caravans when his show came to York's Knavesmire.
- Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire.
- English Roma, Irish travellers, new travellers, showmen and circus people were all consulted.
- Lorenzo the Lion-Tamer was James Wilson's great-grandfather and one of the 19th century's great circus showmen - the equivalent of today's football star or pop-singer.
- A number toured outback Queensland as travelling showmen later in that century.
- In the carnival, Stanton is the assistant to a phony medium, Madam Zeena, a perfect ancestor of modern showmen like John Edward and Sylvia Browne.
- Yimou has the eye of a painter, the grace of a dancer and the flamboyance of a circus showman.
- A showman might have exploited the discovery by presenting it to an audience and claiming it was evidence of some supernatural agency.
- Just one year after the Lumiere brothers gave their first exhibition of projected motion pictures in Paris in 1885, film clips were shown in Shanghai by French and American showmen.
- The Upstagers present the light-hearted story of the American showman on July 15-19 at King's Hall.
Synonyms impresario, stage manager, publicist - 1.1 A person skilled in dramatic or entertaining presentation, performance, or publicity.
he's a great talker and showman but he lacks depth Example sentencesExamples - He is a performer - a downbeat and deadpan showman, but a showman nonetheless.
- Pugilists, criminals, showmen, and oddballs also captured the public fancy: P. T. Barnum was a great early impresario of this new world of celebrity.
- He was brash, extremely talented and a showman to the press and public, and for him running was an escape from a life that he would have spent working on a farm with his abusive father.
- We have only to see a skilled showman working his magic to realise how easy it is for the brain to be fooled into thinking the impossible while we are in full possession of our faculties.
- All of which makes one wonder if Smuin isn't too competent for his own good at this point; he is a skilled showman, and audiences love him for it.
- This is bare-bones, disintegrating-nitrate-to-VHS-to-DVD imaging that does a disservice to the legacy of one of entertainment's truly stellar showmen.
- Yes, we weren't the greatest vocalist, dancers, or harp players, or anything, but we were good showmen.
- Like all the best teachers, he was a great showman and his grand round presentations were occasionally enhanced with giant home made models of parasites and their vectors.
- Blackton had failed to keep up with developments in film technique and his films were dramatically unsophisticated, but he was an expert showman.
- He was great - of all the people that I know in the entertainment industry he was greatest showman, because he always changed his show.
- It's our job to entertain, and we're showmen, we put on a show.
- This is a showman who loves the performance for its own sake, not just for the status this case will bring him.
- Each of these showmen altered the presentation to accommodate changing audiences.
- A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation.
- When he gets in the ring he's a real showman, he just comes up to you and shows off.
- It's fair to say that Cowell makes great telly, and a day on the LA set of his show offers ample first-hand evidence of what a brilliant showman he is.
- Pete is a born entertainer and showman, thriving on being on stage with the audience under his control.
- When Matsui hears himself characterized as a showman or a performer, he laughs hard and then shakes his head so vigorously it appears his cap might pop off.
- King, known for his trademark electric hairdo, is perceived by most of the public as a clown-like showman who, though long-winded, is an entertaining character.
- Dillon was still the consummate showman and since he wasn't obligated to perform his back catalogue, he was able to be himself.
Synonyms entertainer, performer, player, artist, artiste, trouper, star, virtuoso
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