/stooh"dee oh', styooh"-/ , n. , pl. studios .
1. the workroom or atelier of an artist, as a painter or sculptor.
2. a room or place for instruction or experimentation in one of the performing arts: a dance studio.
3. a room or set of rooms specially equipped for broadcasting radio or television programs, making phonograph records, filming motion pictures, etc.
4. all the buildings and adjacent land required or used by a company engaged in the production of motion pictures.
5. See studio apartment .
[ 1800-10; 1910-15 for def. 4; studium; see STUDY ]