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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986);
[syn: Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, King of Swing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Goodman \Good"man\, n. [Good + man] [1913 Webster] 1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] With you, goodman boy, an you please. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ? --Mark xiv. 14. [1913 Webster] Note: In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Goodman n 1: United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) [syn: Goodman, Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, King of Swing]