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

  • An unincorporated community of southeast New York south-southwest of Albany. In 1969, it was the scheduled site of an eponymous rock music festival that was actually held in Bethel, New York, a small town to its southwest.

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  • proper noun Woodstock Festival, an American music festival

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  • DUKE DEVLIN, WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL, "SITE INTERPRETER": A year after Woodstock, people found this site.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • JOHN SEBASTIAN, WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL MUSICIAN: Woodstock is a hard thing to grasp, especially for those who weren't there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • DUKE DEVLIN, WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL, "SITE INTERPRETER": A year after Woodstock, people found this site.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • JOHN SEBASTIAN, WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL MUSICIAN: Woodstock is a hard thing to grasp, especially for those who weren't there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • DUKE DEVLIN, WOODSTOCK FESTIVAL, "SITE INTERPRETER": Year after Woodstock, people found this site.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • JOHN SEBASTIAN, WOODSTOCK PERFORMER: Woodstock is a hard thing to grasp, especially for those who weren't there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • JOHN SEBASTIAN, WOODSTOCK PERFORMER: Woodstock is a hard thing to grasp especially for those who weren't there.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

  • THE WOODSTOCK SCUFFLE; or, Most dreadfull apparitions that were lately seene in the Mannor-house of Woodstock, neere Oxford, to the great terror and the wonderful amazement of all there that did behold them.

    Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

  • WOODSTOCK - A 26-year-old Rockford man admitted he had smoked marijuana and drank about a half gallon of brandy before shooting a Woodstock house last summer.

    News 2010

  • WOODSTOCK - A 57-year-old Woodstock man claimed he legally shot and killed his Labrador retriever during a night of drinking after the dog had bitten him twice in two weeks.

    News 2010

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