workshop
Americannoun
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a room, group of rooms, or building in which work, especially mechanical work, is carried on.
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a seminar, discussion group, or the like, that emphasizes exchange of ideas and the demonstration and application of techniques, skills, etc..
a theater workshop; an opera workshop.
verb (used with object)
noun
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a room or building in which manufacturing or other forms of manual work are carried on
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a room in a private dwelling, school, etc, set aside for crafts
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a group of people engaged in study or work on a creative project or subject
a music workshop
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Origin of workshop
Explanation
A workshop is a place you go to work. If your mother enjoys carpentry, she might have a workshop in the basement where she can build furniture. Workshops are for making and fixing things like wooden furniture, cars, or mysterious inventions. A shorthand way to refer to a workshop is shop, as in the shop class offered in many high schools, which usually meets in a workshop. The noun workshop also means a course or meeting at which a work in progress — often a story, poem, or script — is discussed by a group of writers.
Vocabulary lists containing workshop
The Modern Period, c. 1750 to c. 1914
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Example Sentences
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The most meaningful one for her was an ornament workshop attended by several victims of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2026
At a city commission workshop in Winter Haven, in central Florida, last week, commissioners grappled with the amendment’s potential fallout.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026
Samiullah, a 30-year-old workshop owner who uses one name, said they used to make "five to seven cars per week" but work has stopped because there are no new parts arriving.
From Barron's • Jul. 5, 2026
In 1997, Socolow ran a summer workshop for the U.S.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2026
One morning Christoffels did not appear for Bible reading in the dining room, nor later in the workshop.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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