WORKSHOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does workshop mean? 

• WORKSHOP (noun)
  The noun WORKSHOP has 2 senses:

1. small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

2. a brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving

  Familiarity information: WORKSHOP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORKSHOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

shop; workshop

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

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

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

bindery (a workshop where books are bound)

bookbindery (a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books)

brickfield; brickyard (a place where bricks are made and sold)

chop shop (a place where stolen cars are disassembled for their parts)

dye-works (a workshop where dyeing is done)

machine shop (workshop where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools)

pottery (a workshop where clayware is made)

print shop; printing shop (a workplace where printing is done)

saddlery (workshop where a saddler works)

sheltered workshop (a workshop that offers jobs to members of the physically or developmentally disabled population)

turnery (workshop where objects are made on a lathe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

class; course; course of instruction; course of study (education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings)

 Context examples 

Scientists participating in workshops in the U.S. and U.K. in the past year acknowledged that the future activity of the glacier is an unknown and a potential major concern.

(West Antarctica's largest glacier may have started retreating as early as the 1940s, NSF)

The goldsmith was in his workshop making a gold chain, when he heard the song of the bird on his roof.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You may see your creative project launch, or you may be invited to give a speech or workshop.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The glass door of the parlour was not open; but in the workshop across the yard I could faintly hear the old tune playing, as if it had never left off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

OCS workshops were held in 1996 and 1997 to define priorities for research, which included the prevalence of physical effects from cancer treatment, the prevalence of second cancers in survivors, quality of life, and quality and cost of follow-up care for survivors.

(Office of Cancer Survivorship, NCI Thesaurus)

In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now, researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Oslo have studied ancient DNA from offcuts of tusks and skulls, most found on the sites of former ivory workshops across Europe, in order to trace the origin of the animals used in the medieval trade.

(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)

The little tailor looked round and thought: “It is much more spacious here than in my workshop.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

At the same time there came from a workshop across a little yard outside the window, a regular sound of hammering that kept a kind of tune: RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, RAT—tat-tat, without any variation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The tailor put on the girdle, and resolved to go forth into the world, because he thought his workshop was too small for his valour.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)