Dictionary entry details
• WORKPLACE (noun)
Meaning:
A place where work is done
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
workplace; work
Context example:
he arrived at work early today
Hypernyms ("workplace" is a kind of...):
geographic point; geographical point (a point on the surface of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "workplace"):
locker room (a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "workplace"):
bakehouse; bakery; bakeshop (a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold)
laundry (workplace where clothes are washed and ironed)
location (a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made)
lumberyard (a workplace where lumber is stocked for sale)
oyster bank; oyster bed; oyster park (a workplace where oysters are bred and grown)
proving ground (a workplace for testing new equipment or ideas)
rope yard; ropewalk (workplace consisting of a long narrow path or shed where rope is made)
roundhouse (workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives)
shipyard (a workplace where ships are built or repaired)
shop floor (workplace consisting of the part of a factory housing the machines)
studio (workplace for the teaching or practice of an art)
studio (workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded)
tannery (workplace where skins and hides are tanned)
test bed (a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions)
waterworks (workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community)
lab; laboratory; research lab; research laboratory; science lab; science laboratory (a workplace for the conduct of scientific research)
job (a workplace; as in the expression)
beehive (any workplace where people are very busy)
brokerage; brokerage house (place where a broker conducts his business)
central; exchange; telephone exchange (a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication)
colliery; pit (a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it)
creamery (a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold)
drill site (workplace that is the site of a drill hole)
exchange (a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members)
farm (workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit)
fishery; piscary (a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold)
fish farm (a workplace (usually a pond) where fish are raised for food)
forge; smithy (a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering)
gasworks (the workplace where coal gas is manufactured)
glassworks (a workplace where glass is made)
ironworks (the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made)
shop; workshop (small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done)
