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IMPRESARIO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("impresario" is a kind of...):
booker; booking agent (someone who engages a person or company for performances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impresario"):
exhibitioner; exhibitor; shower (someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see)
organ-grinder (a street musician who plays a hand organ or hurdy-gurdy)
porn merchant; pornographer (someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores)
Instance hyponyms:
Barnum; P. T. Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum (United States showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891))
Buffalo Bill; Buffalo Bill Cody; Cody; William F. Cody; William Frederick Cody (United States showman famous for his Wild West Show (1846-1917))
Diaghilev; Sergei Diaghilev; Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929))
D'Oyly Carte; Richard D'Oyly Carte (English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901))
Hurok; Sol Hurok; Solomon Hurok (United States impresario who was born in Russia (1888-1974))
Charles Ringling; Ringling (United States showman whose song-and-dance troop evolved into a circus (1863-1926))
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