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workshop

UK/ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/US/ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,000 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: workshops

A workshop is a room for making things, or a practical class. A garage workshop, a writing workshop, run a workshop.

The teaching sense has spread everywhere and now means any session where people do something rather than listen. In theatre, to workshop a play is to develop it with actors before it is finished.

Tom Murphy VII · Public domain

Definitions of workshop

  1. 1nounworkshopA room for making things, or a practical class.B2

    “My dad spends his weekends making furniture in his workshop behind the garage.”

workshop is a room.

Where it comes from

Work plus shop, from shop in the old sense of a place where work is done.

From work + shop.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

workshop in the wild

  • Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his early death at 37, leaving a large body of work.

    Raphael

  • After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality.

    Raphael

  • In the 20th and 21st century, many Western homes contained a workshop in either the garage, basement, or an external shed.

    Workshop

  • The exact location of Santa's workshop varies depending upon local culture; however, it is generally said to be somewhere around or on the North Pole.

    Santa's workshop

  • There are at least eight claimed locations for his workshop.

    Santa's workshop

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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