Meanings
plural printshops · alternative print shop · alternative print-shop
- A shop that sells prints.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLCSynonyms: printseller, printseller's, copy shop
- CanadaUSA shop providing commercial copying and printing services.
- uncommonSynonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
As we have seen, government regulated the number of printshops throughout the realm [...] and enforced censorship throughout the land.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 263Synonyms: printing house
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA shop that sells prints.
nounSynonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial mass publisher.
Origin
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printshop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/printshop
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