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Pronunciation: [ʃˈə͡ʊmən] (IPA)

A showman is someone who is skilled in entertaining an audience and catching their attention. There are several synonyms for the word "showman" including performer, entertainer, impresario, exhibitionist, presenter, and ringmaster. A performer is someone who showcases their talents, whether it be through music, dance, or acting. An impresario is someone who organizes and promotes shows, often in the performing arts industry. An exhibitionist is someone who loves to be the center of attention and show off their skills or body. A presenter is someone who introduces and hosts events, such as a TV show or award ceremony. A ringmaster is typically associated with the circus, where they direct and present the various acts to the audience. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation but ultimately refers to someone who knows how to put on a good show.
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Usage examples for Showman

The Jackdaw's sad eye became attracted by a splendid scarf-pin that the showman wore-a gold pin set with a tiny emerald that burned like fire.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
And now the showman began holding up a small glass bottle for the crowd to stare into.
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
His emphatic testimony settled what nobody doubted, and the officer prepared to take the showman to the lock-up.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis

Famous quotes with Showman

  • This is not a showman's job. I will not step out of character.
    Herbert Hoover
  • Welcome to Raw Is Jericho! And I am the new millennium for the World Wrestling Federation. Now for those of you who don't know me, I am Chris Jericho, your new hero, your party host, and most importantly, the most charismastic showman to ever enter your living rooms via a television screen. And for those of you who DO know me, well, all hail the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-a! Now when you think of the new millennium, you think of an event so gigantic that it changes the course of history. You think of a dawning of a new era. In this case, the dawning of a new era in the WWF. Thank you, thank you. And a new era is what this once proud and profitable company sorely needs. What was once a captivating, trend-setting program has now deteriorated into a cliched, let's be honest, boring snoozefest that is in dire need of a knight in shining armor, and that's why I'm here. Chris Jericho has come to save the WWF! Now let's go over the facts. Television ratings, downward spiral; pay-per-view buy-rates, plummeting; mainstream acceptance, non-existent; and reactions of the live crowds, complete and utter silence. And I know why you're silent! You're silent because you're embarrassed to be here. And quite honestly, I'm embarrassed for you. And the reason why you're embarrassed is because of the steady stream of uninteresting, untalented, mediocre "sports entertainers" who you're forced to cheer for and care for. No wonder you're not cheering! You could care less about every single idiot in that dressing room, [indicating The Rock] and especially this idiot in the center of the ring. You people have been led to believe that mediocrity is excellence. Uh-uh. Jericho is excellence. And now for the first time in WWF history, you have a man who can entertain you. You have a man who is good enough for you. You have a man who can make you jump up off your chairs, raise your filthy fat little hands in the air and scream "Go Jericho go! Go Jericho go! Go Jericho go!" Thank you. The new millennium has arrived in the WWF, and now that the Y2J problem is here, this company—from the front-office idiots to all the amateurs in the dressing room, including this one, to everybody watching tonight—will never, ee-e-e-e-() ever be the same... again!
    Chris Jericho
  • Roosevelt was a great personality, a great activist, a great preacher of the moralities, a great controversialist, a great showman.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • And here I cannot help mentioning a very ridiculous show of a learned pig, which of late days attracted much of the public notice, and at the polite end of the town. This pig, which indeed was a large unwieldy hog, being taught to pick up letters written upon pieces of cards, and to arrange them at command, gave great satisfaction to all who saw him, and filled his tormenter's pocket with money. One would not have thought that a hog had been an animal capable of learning: the fact, however, is another proof of what may be accomplished by assiduity; for the showman assured a friend of mine, that he had lost three very promising brutes in the course of training, and that the phenomenon then exhibited had often given him reason to despair of success.
    Joseph Strutt
  • It was as if he were watching a tall stranger with a wand pointing to the embarrassed phantom that was himself, and ruthlessly exposing its frailties! And yet that pitiless showman was himself too — himself as he wanted to be, cheerful, brave, resourceful, indomitable.
    John Buchan

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