Etymology
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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.
printing house (plural printing houses)
- An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing.
- The building where printing occurs.
- (now uncommon) Synonym of printshop: a place to make personal copies.
Synonyms
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Hypernyms
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- (printing company): See printer (inclusive of self-run printing houses)
Hyponyms
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- (printing company): imprint (subsidiary printing house)
Translations
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company chiefly devoted to printing
- Albanian: shtypshkronjë (sq) f
- Arabic: مَطْبَعَة f (maṭbaʕa)
- Armenian: տպարան (hy) (tparan)
- Azerbaijani: mətbəə (az)
- Belarusian: друка́рня f (drukárnja)
- Bulgarian: печа́тница f (pečátnica)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 印刷廠／印刷厂 (zh) (yìnshuāchǎng), 印刷所 (zh) (yìnshuāsuǒ), 版畫店／版画店 (bǎnhuàdiàn)
- Czech: tiskárna (cs) f
- Danish: trykkeri (da) n
- Dutch: drukkerij (nl) f
- Estonian: trükikoda
- Finnish: painotalo (fi)
- French: imprimerie (fr) f, typographie (fr) f
- Georgian: სტამბა (sṭamba)
- German: Druckerei (de) f, Typographie (de) f
- Greek: τυπογραφείο (el) n (typografeío)
- Hebrew: בֵּית דְּפוּס (he) m (beyt dfus)
- Hungarian: nyomda (hu), nyomdaműhely, nyomtatószalon
- Icelandic: prentsmiðja f
- Italian: tipografia (it) f
- Japanese: 印刷会社 (いんさつがいしゃ, insatsu-gaisha), 印刷所 (いんさつじょ, insatsujo, いんさつしょ, insatsusho)
- Kazakh: баспахана (baspaxana)
- Khmer: រោងពុម្ព (roong pum)
- Korean: 인쇄소(印刷所) (ko) (inswaeso)
- Kyrgyz: басмакана (ky) (basmakana), типография (ky) (tipografiya)
- Lao: ໂຮງພິມ (hōng phim)
- Latvian: tipogrāfija f
- Lithuanian: spaustuvė f
- Lü: ᦷᦣᧂᦘᦲᧄ (hongphiim)
- Macedonian: печатница f (pečatnica)
- Maori: whare perehi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: trykkeri n
- Ottoman Turkish: مطبعه (matbaa)
- Persian: چاپخانه (fa) (čâpxâne), مطبعه (fa) (matba'a) (Dari or dated)
- Plautdietsch: Drekjarie f
- Polish: drukarnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: gráfica (pt) f, tipografia (pt) f
- Romanian: tipografie (ro) f, imprimerie (ro) f
- Russian: типогра́фия (ru) f (tipográfija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: штампа̀рија f, тѝскара f
- Roman: štampàrija (sh) f, tìskara (sh) f
- Slovak: tlačiareň f
- Slovene: tiskarna (sl) f
- Spanish: imprenta (es) f
- Swedish: tryckeri (sv) n
- Tagalog: palimbagan
- Tajik: матбаа (matbaa), чопхона (čopxona)
- Thai: โรงพิมพ์ (th) (roong-pim)
- Tibetan: པར་ཁང (par khang)
- Turkish: basımevi (tr), matbaa (tr)
- Ukrainian: друка́рня (uk) f (drukárnja)
- Uzbek: bosmaxona (uz)
- Vietnamese: nhà in (vi), xưởng in, nhà máy in
- Yiddish: דרוקערײַ f (drukeray)
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a building in which printing takes place
