Phrase guide

printing house

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Meronym: imprint (subsidiary printing house or brand name)

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: publishing house, publisher, printing press, press, printing shop, printshop, printer's, printer, imprimery

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The building where printing occurs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: printing shop, printshop, printer's, printworks

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A place to make personal copies.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncommon

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: printshop, copy shop

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From the expansive sense of house to refer to any building, particularly those like shops or workshops where people work together for a common purpose. Originally used in reference to printing workshops supplying or included within a bookshop; later used more expansively to refer to any institution or company involved in printing.

Across languages

Translations

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: shtypshkronjë — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Arabic: مَطْبَعَة (maṭbaʕa) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Armenian: տպարան (tparan) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Azerbaijani: mətbəə — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Belarusian: друка́рня (drukárnja) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Bulgarian: печа́тница (pečátnica) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Catalan: impremta — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 印刷廠 /印刷厂 (yìnshuāchǎng) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 印刷所 (yìnshuāsuǒ) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 版畫店 /版画店 (bǎnhuàdiàn) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Czech: tiskárna — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Danish: trykkeri — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Dutch: drukkerij — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Estonian: trükikoda — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Finnish: painotalo — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • French: imprimerie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • French: typographie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Georgian: სტამბა (sṭamba) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • German: Druckerei — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • German: Typographie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Greek: τυπογραφείο (typografeío) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Hebrew: בֵּית דְּפוּס (beyt dfus) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Hungarian: nyomda — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Hungarian: nyomdaműhely — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Hungarian: nyomtatószalon — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Icelandic: prentsmiðja — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Italian: tipografia — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Japanese: 印刷会社 (insatsu-gaisha) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Japanese: 印刷所 — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Kazakh: баспахана (baspaxana) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Khmer: រោងពុម្ព (roong pum) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Korean: 인쇄소 (inswaeso) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Kyrgyz: басмакана (basmakana) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Kyrgyz: типография (tipografiya) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Lao: ໂຮງພິມ (hōng phim) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Latvian: tipogrāfija — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Lithuanian: spaustuvė — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • : ᦷᦣᧂᦘᦲᧄ (hongphiim) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Macedonian: печатница (pečatnica) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Māori: whare perehi — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⵙⵉⴳⴳⵣⵜ (tasiggəst) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: trykkeri — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Persian: چاپخانه (čâpxâne) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Persian: مطبعه (matba'a) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Plautdietsch: Drekjarie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Polish: drukarnia — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Portuguese: gráfica — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Portuguese: tipografia — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Romanian: tipografie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Romanian: imprimerie — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Russian: типогра́фия (tipográfija) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Serbo-Croatian: штампа̀рија — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Serbo-Croatian: тѝскара — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Serbo-Croatian: štampàrija — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Serbo-Croatian: tìskara — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Slovak: tlačiareň — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Slovene: tiskarna — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Spanish: imprenta — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Swedish: tryckeri — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Tagalog: palimbagan — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Tajik: матбаа (matbaa) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Tajik: чопхона (čopxona) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Thai: โรงพิมพ์ (roong-pim) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Tibetan: པར་ཁང (par khang) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Turkish: basımevi — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Turkish: matbaa — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Ottoman Turkish: مطبعه (matbaa) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Ukrainian: друка́рня (drukárnja) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Uzbek: bosmaxona — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Vietnamese: nhà in — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Vietnamese: xưởng in — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Vietnamese: nhà máy in — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Walloon: imprimreye — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Yiddish: דרוקערײַ (drukeray) — company chiefly devoted to printing
  • Hungarian: nyomda — a building in which printing takes place
  • Māori: whare perehi — a building in which printing takes place
  • Māori: whare tā — a building in which printing takes place
  • Polish: drukarnia — a building in which printing takes place
  • Ottoman Turkish: باصمهخانه (basmahâne) — a building in which printing takes place
  • Walloon: imprimreye — a building in which printing takes place