WOODSTOCK Definition & Meaning

Woodstock

[ wood-stok ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a town in northeastern Illinois.
a rock music festival held in August of 1969 in Bethel, N.Y., a town near Woodstock, N.Y.

Woodstock

/ ˈ��ʊ��ɒ�� /

noun

a town in New York State, the site of a large rock festival in August 1969. Pop: 6253 (2003 est)

Woodstock

A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival.

Discover More

Notes

The size of the crowd and the prevalence of hippie dress and customs led to use of the term Woodstock nation to indicate the youth counterculture of the late 1960s.

The term Woodstock is now used loosely to mean a large, impromptu gathering.

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

Lead singer Perry Farrell came up with the idea for Lollapalooza, a “Woodstock for the Lost Generation,” according to the New York Times, as a farewell tour for the imploding group.

From

Then again, it may go down as easy as waking from a collective nightmare as the people of the world say in unison, “Wow, so that’s what taking the wrong acid at Woodstock was all about.”

From

Stephen, you famously said onstage at Woodstock that you guys were “scared s—” because the festival was only the band’s second time before an audience.

From

Stills: Scared s— was gone by, I’d say, bar 16 of the first song at Woodstock.

From

Wait, you’ve never seen all of “Woodstock”? That seems insane.

From

Browse

�y��vlog

Woodstock

noun

noun

Notes

Example Sentences