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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A theatrical producer.
  • noun A man who has a flair for dramatic or ostentatious behavior.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who exhibits a show, especially the proprietor of a traveling exhibition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person who owns or runs a fairground.
  • noun a theatrical impresario or promoter, someone resembling this.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
  • noun a person skilled at making effective presentations

Etymologies

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show +‎ man

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