office

CEFRA1

/ˈɒf.ɪs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A room or building where people work.

  2. 02

    noun

    A job or position with official duties.

Examples

  • Have you ever visited the office where your father works?

  • His sudden departure threw the office into chaos.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A ceremonial duty or service, particularly

  2. A ceremonial duty or service

  3. The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

More examples

In context

  • Why did you not go to the office?

  • Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.

  • In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)). The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.