Woodstock Syllabification: (Wood·stock)Pronunciation: /ˈwo͝odˌstäk/Definition of Woodstock a small town in southwestern New York, 50 miles (80 km) south of Albany. It gave its name in the summer of 1969 to a huge rock music festival held about 60 miles (96 km) to the southwest. Woodstock in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Woodstock in the British & World English dictionary