Workshop

Quick meaning: Workshop is a noun meaning A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

Meaning

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

More Meanings

1. A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
2. An academic conference.
3. (transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
4. (transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
5. (transitive, business) To improve through collaboration.

Example Sentences

Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• workshops
• workshopping
• workshopped

Synonyms for workshop

Depending on context, synonyms include intensive, shop.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shop, factory, showroom, atelier, studio, laboratory.

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