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IMPRESARIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impresario mean? 

IMPRESARIO (noun)
  The noun IMPRESARIO has 1 sense:

1. a sponsor who books and stages public entertainmentsplay

  Familiarity information: IMPRESARIO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPRESARIO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

impresario; promoter; showman

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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