workshop
UK/ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp//ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
workshop noun: a room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
Noun
workshop (plural workshops)
- A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
- A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
- A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
- On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents
- Synonyms:
- intensive
- An academic conference.
Verb
workshop (third-person singular simple present workshops, present participle workshopping, simple past and past participle workshopped)
- To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
- That’s because as well as the film being set in San Francisco and channelling California’s favourite sexologist, the cast workshopped the script for a fortnight with screenwriters Rashida Jones and Will McCormack.2026 July 3, Catherine Shoard, “‘I feel both thrilled and ruined by this’: Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton on making sex comedy The Invite”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
- Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...
- To improve through collaboration.
workshop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
workshop in Hindi
- small manufacturing room
- कर्मशाला karmaśālā, कारख़ाना kārxānā
workshop in Tamil
- பணிமனை, பட்டறை, பயிலரங்கு
workshop in Marathi
- workshop
- कारखाना kārkhānā
workshop in Urdu
- small manufacturing room
- کار گاہ kār gāh, کارْخانَہ kārxāna
More languagesFewer languages
- workshop in Bengali
- কর্মশালা kormośala
- workshop in Telugu
- వర్క్షాప్, వర్క్ షాప్, వర్క్షాపింగ్
- workshop in Malayalam
- പണിപ്പുര paṇippura
- workshop in Kannada
- ಕಮ್ಮಟ, ಮಾಳ್ಮನೆ, ಮಾಡುಮನ, ಕಾರ್ಯಾಗಾರ
- workshop in Punjabi
- ਕਾਰਖ਼ਾਨਾ kārxānā
- workshop in Gujarati
- કારખાનું kārkhānũ
- workshop in Odia
- କର୍ମଶାଳା, କର୍ମଶାଳାର
- workshop in Sanskrit
- शिल्पशाला śilpaśālā, कण्टक káṇṭaka
- workshop in Nepali
- कार्यशाला
- workshop in Pashto
- ورکشاپ warkšāp
- workshop in Arabic
- مَشْغَل mašḡal, وَرْشَة warša
- workshop in Malay
- bengkel, woksyop
- workshop in Indonesian
- bengkel, bengkel kerja, lokakarya, sanggar kerja
- workshop in Persian
- کارْگاه kârgâh
- workshop in Thai
- โรงงาน roong-ngaan
- workshop in Vietnamese
- xưởng
- workshop in Myanmar
- အလုပ်ရုံ a.lup-rum
Examples of workshop in a sentence
- My mother warned me not to squirrel around in my dad's workshop.
- During the aircraft check, some rotable parts were removed and serviced in the workshop.
- We bounced around some suggestions in-house and then workshopped the best ones afterward.
Synonyms of workshop
Forms of workshop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | workshops |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | workshops |
| present participle | workshopping |
| past participle | workshopped |
| past | workshopped |
Origin of workshop
From work + shop.
Words formed from workshop
Questions about workshop
- What does workshop mean?
- Workshop means a room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
- What is workshop in Hindi?
- Workshop in Hindi is कर्मशाला (karmaśālā), कारख़ाना (kārxānā). See Workshop meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is workshop?
- Workshop can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce workshop?
- Workshop is pronounced /ˈwɜːk.ʃɒp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of workshop?
- The plural of workshop is workshops.
Words near workshop in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: workshop (page history and authors); workshop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कारखाना (Marathi) (page history and authors); workshop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പണിപ്പുര (Malayalam) (page history and authors); workshop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કારખાનું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); workshop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कण्टक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); workshop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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