atelier
Syllables: atel·ier/əˈtɛl.jeɪ/US/əˈtɛlˌjeɪ/
atelier noun: a studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house.
Noun
atelier (plural ateliers)
- A studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house.
- The Dukes de Claulne, father and ſon, had laboratories for clock and vvatch making as vvell as for machinery. Theſe ateliers, as the French name them, vvere as fine and complete for the choice of tools as it vvas poſſible to find in Europe; […]1792 November 4, W. Blakey, “[Mr. Blakey on Pendulums]”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, volume LXII, part II, number 5, London: […] John...
- I paid a visit to the celebrated [Antonio] Canova in his vast and interesting atelier. He had been at Naples a short time before to form his own judgment of the situation intended for the equestrian statue of Napoleon, which we saw already almost finished in his atelier.1839, Mathieu Dumas [i.e., Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas], chapter VI, in [anonymous], transl., Memoirs of His Own Time; including the Revolution, the Empire, and the Restoration. […], volume II, London...
atelier meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog and Arabic
atelier in Tamil
- தொழிற்சாலை, கலைஞனின் பணிமனை
atelier in Bengali
- শিল্পীর কর্মশালা, স্টুডিও
atelier in Tagalog
- Translations
- talyér, estudyo
atelier in Arabic
- Translations
- مَرْسَم marsam
More languagesFewer languages
- atelier in Indonesian
- atelir
- atelier in Persian
- آتلیه âtelye
Examples of atelier in a sentence
- At the meeting of the Society, February 6, it was stated that red glass was preferable to yellow for the windows of photographic ateliers.1874 May 8, “Chemical News from Foreign Sources”, in William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science. […]...
- Hats with transparent tulle and crêpe brims and hemp or leghorn crowns are succeeding the small martial styles of which this atelier made quite a feature earlier in the season.1915 March, “Present Fad for Toques and Helmets Succeeded by Vogue for Second Empire Styles”, in The Illustrated Milliner, manufacturers’...
- Education opportunities improved with the advent of the Second Empire in 1850 and more ateliers began to take women students.1996, Reina Lewis, “Professional Opportunities for Women in Art and Literature”, in Race, Femininity and Representation, London; New York...
- The first thing Diane did when she arrived home was to hurry into the atelier.2004, Sidney Sheldon, chapter 1, in Are You Afraid of the Dark?, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 11:
Forms of atelier
| plural | ateliers |
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Origin of atelier
Unadapted borrowing from French atelier, from Middle French astelier, from astelle (“small piece of wood, etc., to hold a broken bone in place, splint”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis; axle”) via Latin assula) + -ier (suffix denoting the location of an abode). Compare typologically Latin harēna, whence arena.
Questions about atelier
- What does atelier mean?
- Atelier means a studio or workshop, especially for an artist, designer, or fashion house.
- What is atelier in Tamil?
- Atelier in Tamil is தொழிற்சாலை, கலைஞனின் பணிமனை. See Atelier meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use atelier in a sentence?
- At the meeting of the Society, February 6, it was stated that red glass was preferable to yellow for the windows of photographic ateliers.
- What part of speech is atelier?
- Atelier is a noun.
- How do you pronounce atelier?
- Atelier is pronounced /əˈtɛl.jeɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of atelier?
- The plural of atelier is ateliers.
Words near atelier in the dictionary
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