Woodstock

[wood-stok]

noun

1. a town in northeastern Illinois.

2. a rock music festival held in August of 1969 in Bethel, N.Y., a town near Woodstock, N.Y.

Woodstock

/ ˈwʊdstɒk /

noun

1. a town in New York State, the site of a large rock festival in August 1969. Pop: 6253 (2003 est)

Woodstock

1. A village in New York state, where some 400,000 young people assembled in 1969 for a rock music festival.

The size of the crowd and the prevalence of hippie dress and customs led to use of the term Woodstock nation to indicate the youth counterculture of the late 1960s.

The term Woodstock is now used loosely to mean a large, impromptu gathering.

Example Sentences

The unfinished, three-story, 5,000-square-foot single-family homes along N. Woodstock Road near Mulholland Drive were part of a planned 21-home development for which permits were issued in 1998 and 1999.

From Los Angeles Times

Visitors will be able to take part in code-breaking as part of the Women of Wartime - Secrets trail, which will run at the palace, in Woodstock, until 30 September.

From BBC

A "neo-fascist Croatian Woodstock" or patriotic, anti-establishment fun?

From BBC

I was at Woodstock, and he was a couple acts after me.

From Los Angeles Times

From the Apollo moon landing and Woodstock to the Stonewall riots and the Harlem Cultural Festival, there wasn’t a disciple or demographic that was not directly affected over that stretch.

From Los Angeles Times