STUDIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does studio mean? 

• STUDIO (noun)
  The noun STUDIO has 3 senses:

1. workplace for the teaching or practice of an art

2. an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen

3. workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded

  Familiarity information: STUDIO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STUDIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Workplace for the teaching or practice of an art

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

you don't need a studio to make a passport photograph

Hypernyms ("studio" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "studio"):

artist's workroom; atelier (a studio especially for an artist or designer)

broadcasting studio (a studio where broadcasts originate)

recording studio (studio where tapes and records are recorded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

studio; studio apartment

Hypernyms ("studio" is a kind of...):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("studio" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Antonym:

location (a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made)

 Context examples 

There was no way she could run home to receive the delivery, even though her home was close to the studio.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The remodeled lunch being gaily partaken of, the studio and garden visited, and art discussed with enthusiasm, Amy ordered a buggy (alas for the elegant cherry-bounce), and drove her friend quietly about the neighborhood till sunset, when 'the party went out'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mercury would still be retrograde for the delayed delivery date, but Jennifer Lopez was coming into the studio to film, and because Diana is Music Producer for James Cordon, she needed to be there all day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Swarthy boys and dark-eyed Madonnas, staring at you from one corner of the studio, suggested Murillo; oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt; buxom ladies and dropiscal infants, Rubens; and Turner appeared in tempests of blue thunder, orange lightning, brown rain, and purple clouds, with a tomato-colored splash in the middle, which might be the sun or a bouy, a sailor's shirt or a king's robe, as the spectator pleased.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)