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workplace

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: W ER1 K P L EY2 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The place where someone works.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Meronyms: workspace, workstation
  • in the workplace
  • professionalism in the workplace

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: workstead

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: place, location, site

2

noun

Meaning 2

a place where work is done

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he arrived at work early today

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: work

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: geographic point, geographical point

Narrower terms: bakery, bakeshop, bakehouse, beehive, brokerage house, brokerage, central, telephone exchange, exchange, colliery, pit, creamery, drill site, farm, fishery, piscary, fish farm, forge, smithy, gasworks, glassworks, ironworks, job, lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory, laundry, location, lumberyard, oyster bed, oyster bank, oyster park, proving ground, ropewalk, rope yard, roundhouse, shipyard, shop floor, studio, tannery, test bed, waterworks, workshop, shop

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-West Germanic *werk Old English weorc Middle English werk English work English place English workplace From work + place.

Across languages

Translations

83 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Southern Altai: иштенер јер (ištener ǰer) — place where someone works
  • Arabic: مَكَان عَمَل (makān ʕamal) — place where someone works
  • Armenian: աշխատավայր (ašxatavayr) — place where someone works
  • Azerbaijani: iş yeri — place where someone works
  • Basque: lantegi — place where someone works
  • Belarusian: працо́ўнае ме́сца (pracównaje mjésca) — place where someone works
  • Bengali: কর্মক্ষেত্র (kormokkhetro) — place where someone works
  • Bulgarian: рабо́тно мя́сто (rabótno mjásto) — place where someone works
  • Burmese: အလုပ်ခွင် (a.luphkwang) — place where someone works
  • Chinese Mandarin: 工作場所 /工作场所 (gōngzuò chǎngsuǒ) — place where someone works
  • Chinese Mandarin: 職場 /职场 (zhíchǎng) — place where someone works
  • Ngazidja Comorian: hazi — place where someone works
  • Czech: pracoviště — place where someone works
  • Danish: arbejdsplads — place where someone works
  • Dutch: werkplek — place where someone works
  • Dutch: arbeidsplaats — place where someone works
  • Esperanto: laborejo — place where someone works
  • Estonian: töökoht — place where someone works
  • Finnish: työpaikka — place where someone works
  • French: lieu de travail — place where someone works
  • French: travail — place where someone works
  • Georgian: სამუშაო ადგილი (samušao adgili) — place where someone works
  • German: Arbeitsplatz — place where someone works
  • German: Arbeitsstelle — place where someone works
  • German: Arbeitsstätte — place where someone works
  • Greek: χώρος εργασίας (chóros ergasías) — place where someone works
  • Greenlandic: suliffik — place where someone works
  • Greenlandic: sullivik — place where someone works
  • Hebrew: מקום עבודה (mekóm avodá) — place where someone works
  • Hindi: कार्यशाला (kāryaśālā) — place where someone works
  • Hindi: कार्यालय (kāryālay) — place where someone works
  • Hungarian: munkahely — place where someone works
  • Hungarian: munkavégzés helye/helyszíne — place where someone works
  • Icelandic: vinnustaður — place where someone works
  • Indonesian: tempat kerja — place where someone works
  • Italian: luogo di lavoro — place where someone works
  • Japanese: 職場 (shokuba) — place where someone works
  • Japanese: 仕事場 (shigotoba) — place where someone works
  • Kapampangan: pipagobran — place where someone works
  • Kazakh: жұмыс орны (jūmys orny) — place where someone works
  • Korean: 직장 (jikjang) — place where someone works
  • Korean: 일터 (ilteo) — place where someone works
  • Kyrgyz: жумуш орду (jumuş ordu) — place where someone works
  • Latvian: darbavieta — place where someone works
  • Lithuanian: darbovietė — place where someone works
  • Macedonian: работно место (rabotno mesto) — place where someone works
  • Malay: tempat kerja — place where someone works
  • Māori: wāhi mahi — place where someone works
  • Niuean: fale gahua — place where someone works
  • Norwegian Bokmål: arbeidsplass — place where someone works
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: arbeidsplass — place where someone works
  • Iranian Persian: مَحَلِّ کار (mahall-e kâr) — place where someone works
  • Polish: miejsce pracy — place where someone works
  • Polish: stanowisko pracy — place where someone works
  • Portuguese: local de trabalho — place where someone works
  • Romanian: loc de muncă — place where someone works
  • Russian: рабо́чее ме́сто (rabóčeje mésto) — place where someone works
  • Russian: ме́сто рабо́ты (mésto rabóty) — place where someone works
  • Serbo-Croatian: радно место — place where someone works
  • Serbo-Croatian: радно мјесто — place where someone works
  • Serbo-Croatian: radno mesto — place where someone works
  • Serbo-Croatian: radno mjesto — place where someone works
  • Slovak: pracovisko — place where someone works
  • Slovene: delovno mesto — place where someone works
  • Spanish: lugar de trabajo — place where someone works
  • Spanish: curro — place where someone works
  • Spanish: tajo — place where someone works
  • Sranan Tongo: wrokope — place where someone works
  • Swedish: arbetsplats — place where someone works
  • Tajik: маҳали кор (mahal-i kor) — place where someone works
  • Tajik: ҷои кор (jo-yi kor) — place where someone works
  • Thai: ที่ทํางาน (tîi-tam-ngaan) — place where someone works
  • Turkish: iş yeri — place where someone works
  • Turkmen: iş ýeri — place where someone works
  • Ukrainian: робо́че мі́сце (robóče mísce) — place where someone works
  • Urdu: کام کی جَگَہْ (kām kī jagah) — place where someone works
  • Urdu: کام کی جَگَہ (kām kī jaga) — place where someone works
  • Uyghur: ئىش ئورنى (ish orni) — place where someone works
  • Uzbek: ish oʻrni — place where someone works
  • Vietnamese: sở — place where someone works
  • Vietnamese: sở làm — place where someone works
  • Volapük: voböp — place where someone works
  • Yoruba: ibi-iṣẹ́ — place where someone works
Real reading context

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