reading room
5
2.6
- noun
- /ˈriːdɪŋ ruːm/
:
sala de lectura
- I often go to the reading room at the library to study for my exams.
- a reading room in a library
Cabe worked in the British Museum reading room just like Marx did.
- Cabe worked in the British Museum reading room just like Marx did.
- We put these reading rooms particularly in title one schools where kids come from homes with very few, if any books go to schools that don't have a big library budget.
- You're in actually the Schaumburg, the they have the new reading room.
Examples
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By the time Jan was done checking out books, only a handful of people still lingered in the reading room.
Fiction book (2001) -
On the first floor is a reception area, a reading room, and two offices.
Academic text (1995) -
That was that little reading room in the hospital.
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The few people who remained in the reading room were paying no attention to her.
Fiction book (2001) -
Instead, she used the computers near the reading room, which had free access to the Internet.
Fiction book (2001) -
Annie sits in the huge reading room, books spread out before her, under a green reading lamp.
Fiction book (1998) -
Students worked individually with the interventionist in a reading room at School A and in the resource room at School B.
Academic text (2015) -
The Kurhaus was the spa's international meeting place, but Pork was now interested in the reading rooms.
Fiction book (1993) -
The venue also had restaurants, stores, reading rooms, a theater, a bandstand, a ballroom, and a beautiful beach.
Blog text (27) -
The hotel reading room routinely included two or three people devouring Mr. Hope's Prisoner of Zenda.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
201
1.1
A room in a house for reading, writing, or quiet work
1
2.3
A quiet place to sit and read, like by a window or in a park
1
3.0
A small comfortable corner with a chair and lamp for reading
A small private room in a home for reading and keeping books
How Quiet
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room reserved for reading or quiet study' is directly and compositionally derived from 'reading' + 'room' — a room for reading. This noun-noun compound follows a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name reading room comes from the literal idea: a room set aside for reading. Libraries made quiet rooms where people could read books and old papers, so the name means 'a room reserved for quiet study'.