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showman

[ shoh-muhn ]

noun

plural showmen.
  1. a person who presents or produces a show, especially of a theatrical nature.
  2. a person who is gifted in doing or presenting things theatrically or dramatically:

    He didn't have much voice but was a great showman.



showman

/ ˈʃəʊə /

noun

  1. a person who presents or produces a theatrical show, etc
  2. a person skilled at presenting anything in an effective manner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǷɳԲ󾱱, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • Ƿm· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of showman1

First recorded in 1725–35; show + -man
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Example Sentences

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President Trump is a master showman, but an amateur magician.

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Since he’s an entertaining showman, we should avoid drama and spectacles.

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The site selling tickets for his Moscow gig describes Offset, who used to be married to Cardi B, as "a showman who turns a concert into a theatrical performance".

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A showman who, as the author of “The Colored Museum,” was fully at home in more abstract realms of playwriting, he knew how to balance radical theatricality with more conventional storytelling panache.

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The prime minister's appointment with President Donald Trump, a wildly unpredictable showman of very different political hue, could so easily have been awkward, even excruciating.

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