studio
Americannoun
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studios
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the workroom or atelier of an artist, as a painter or sculptor.
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a room or place for instruction or experimentation in one of the performing arts.
a dance studio.
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a room or set of rooms specially equipped for broadcasting radio or television programs, making phonograph records, filming motion pictures, etc.
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all the buildings and adjacent land required or used by a company engaged in the production of motion pictures.
noun
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a room in which an artist, photographer, or musician works
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a room used to record television or radio programmes, make films, etc
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(plural) the premises of a radio, television, or film company
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Etymology
Origin of studio
First recorded in 1800–10; 1910–15 studio for def. 4; from Italian, from Latin studium; see study
Explanation
A studio is a room or space where an artist either teaches classes or does their work. If you make pottery, you might dream of one day having a studio in your back yard. A studio is an artist's dedicated space for making art, whether they're a painter, photographer, or even a writer. Films are made in another type of studio, a facility for producing movies (and studio is also frequently used to mean the business entity that produces a movie). Musicians work in studios too, spaces specially designed for recording music. There's also a studio apartment, a one-room living space.
Vocabulary lists containing studio
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Due largely to Mr. Scholz’s ardent perfectionism, the band would release just five more studio albums after its debut, the most recent of which came out in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The notion that motion pictures could make a record of real-world events was formalized with the advent of the newsreel, the creation of which is credited to the French studio Pathé in 1910.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the private home studio left behind by his father, Shane Hawkins is hitting the drums hard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Within seven days, she was back in the dance studio, rehearsing for forthcoming performances with a large bandage strapped across her stomach.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
She was in the big studio where she painted, and she was working at her easel, humming and holding a paintbrush with a blue-daubed end in her hand.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Here are the biggest reveals and takeaways from Disney’s studios showcase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Netflix said it is in the process of closing two of its gaming studios, as the division is making another round of organizational changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The seven-year-old Studs, which calls itself an experiential retail and e-commerce brand, has expanded its footprint of petite, painfully trendy neon studios to nearly 20 states across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Vast’s flagship product, Tripo Studio, turns text or image prompts into 3-D models—the kind of digital asset that videogame studios, animation houses and product designers once built manually from scratch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Which was why when I’d first spotted him watching me at the music studios at school two years ago, I’d been convinced he was making fun of me and I’d hidden from him.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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