workshop

[ wurk-shop ]

noun

1. a room, group of rooms, or building in which work, especially mechanical work, is carried on.
2. 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)

, work·shop·ped, work·shop·ping.

1. to experiment with different versions of (a play or other performance), often in a collaborative environment:

   Most comedians workshop their jokes in smaller clubs before adding them to a polished routine.

workshop

/ ˈwɜːkˌʃɒp /

noun

1. a room or building in which manufacturing or other forms of manual work are carried on
2. a room in a private dwelling, school, etc, set aside for crafts
3. a group of people engaged in study or work on a creative project or subject

   a music workshop

verb

1. tr to perform (a play) with no costumes, set, or musical accompaniment

Other Words From

• post·workshop adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of workshop¹

First recorded in 1555–65; work + shop

Example Sentences

It’s a great power tool for your beginner workshop as you go through your list of home projects.

From Popular-Science

Their authors’ only real hope is to have their papers accepted in workshops, which rarely get the same attention from the community.

From MIT Technology Review

Writing workshops still are best with real time, synchronous online classes, and students must take the risk of reading what they have written aloud to their classmates.

From Voice of San Diego

The solar array will be used for the workshop and telescope components of the Skylab cluster to be launched as a space station forerunner.

From Science News

On July 9, we held “How and When We’ll Recover, By the Numbers” a workshop to help our readers better understand which metrics matter most right now.

From Quartz

I met Klay, a Marine veteran of Iraq, in 2008 at a writing workshop for veterans run by New York University.

From The Daily Beast

This was the second meeting for the 21 women; their first workshop took place in New Delhi, India, in April.

From The Daily Beast

I was taking a writing workshop, and one of the tasks was to write down our “obsessions” at the beginning of each evening.

From The Daily Beast

And then came the day when they walked into the London workshop of a musical instrument emporium.

From The Daily Beast

Another new Akhtar play opens later in the season at the always-excellent New York Theater Workshop.

From The Daily Beast

Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.

From Project Gutenberg

Certain it is however that while yet a youth he obtained employment in the workshop of Nicholas Amati.

From Project Gutenberg

When the men worked on their flint points, Fleetfoot liked to play near the workshop.

From Project Gutenberg

It strikes me that your inactivity proceeds from your lack of concentration, in spite of your snug workshop.

From Project Gutenberg

And so Flaker busied himself in the workshop when the men went out to hunt.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• factory
• laboratory
• mill
• plant
• studio