different between showroom vs atelier

English

Etymology

From show +? room. Verb sense circa 2011.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o???um/

Noun

showroom (plural showrooms)

1. A room in a business set aside for the display of the company's products.
2. (dated) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

Hypernyms

• room

Translations

Verb

showroom (third-person singular simple present showrooms, present participle showrooming, simple past and past participle showroomed)

1. To inspect merchandise in a physical store, then purchase the identical product from an online merchant; to use a physical store as a showroom for an online merchant.

   This new phone looks good, but I want to go to the mall and showroom it before buying.

Usage notes

Especially used in nominalized form showrooming.

French

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.?um/

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom

Spanish

Noun

showroom m (plural showrooms)

1. showroom

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French atelier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ.t?l?je?/, /?æ.t?l.je?/, /??t?l.je?/, /??t?l.i.e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

atelier (plural ateliers)

1. A workshop or studio, especially for an artist, designer or fashion house.

Translations

Anagrams

• e-retail, e-tailer, etailer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French atelier.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /?a?.t?l?je?/
• Hyphenation: ate?lier
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

atelier n (plural ateliers, diminutive ateliertje n)

1. workshop, studio; in particular in relation to artistic activities, the production of clothing or engineering

Derived terms

• naaiatelier

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ateljee
• ? Indonesian: atelir

French

Etymology

From Middle French astelier, hastelier. See attelle +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t?.lje/

Noun

atelier m (plural ateliers)

1. workshop

Descendants

Further reading

• “atelier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• altière, réalité

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French atelier.

Noun

atelier m (invariable)

1. atelier

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French atelier.

Noun

atelier n (definite singular atelieret, indefinite plural atelier or atelierer, definite plural ateliera or atelierene)

1. studio (of an artist or photographer)

References

• “atelier” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “atelier” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French atelier.

Noun

atelier n (definite singular atelieret, indefinite plural atelier, definite plural ateliera)

1. studio (of an artist or photographer)

References

• “atelier” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French atelier, from Middle French astelier, hastelier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.t?l?j?/

Noun

atelier n (indeclinable)

1. atelier (workshop or studio, especially for an artist, designer or fashion house)

   Synonym: studio

2. (film) atelier (film studio)

Derived terms

• (adjective) atelierowy

Further reading

• atelier in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• atelier in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French atelier.

Noun

atelier n (plural ateliere)

1. workshop

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French atelier. Doublet of taller.

Noun

atelier m (plural atelieres)

1. atelier

Further reading

• “atelier” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.