"reading room" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: reading rooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} reading room (plural reading rooms)
  1. A dedicated space in a library, or similar institution of learning, set aside for reading. Translations (space set aside for reading): قَاعَة ٱلْمُطَالَعَة (qāʕat al-muṭālaʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), ընթերցասրահ (əntʻercʻasrah) (Armenian), irakurgela (Basque), читалня (čitalnja) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sala de lectura [feminine] (Catalan), 閱覽室 (Chinese Mandarin), 阅览室 (yuèlǎnshì) (Chinese Mandarin), 閱讀室 (Chinese Mandarin), 阅读室 (yuèdúshì) (Chinese Mandarin), 圖書室 (Chinese Mandarin), 图书室 (túshūshì) (Chinese Mandarin), čítárna [feminine] (Czech), læsesal [common-gender] (Danish), leeszaal [feminine] (Dutch), lugemissaal (Estonian), lukusali (Finnish), salle de lecture [feminine] (French), Lesesaal [masculine] (German), αναγνωστήριο (anagnostírio) [neuter] (Greek), olvasóterem (Hungarian), sala di lettura [feminine] (Italian), 読書室 (dokushoshitsu) (alt: どくしょしつ) (Japanese), 閲覧室 (etsuranshitsu) (alt: えつらんしつ) (Japanese), 독서실 (dokseosil) (Korean), 열람실 (yeollamsil) (Korean), lasītava [feminine] (Latvian), читалница (čitalnica) [feminine] (Macedonian), читална (čitalna) [feminine] (Macedonian), Lässtow [feminine] (Plautdietsch), czytelnia [feminine] (Polish), sala de leitura [feminine] (Portuguese), чита́льный зал (čitálʹnyj zal) [masculine] (Russian), чита́льня (čitálʹnja) [feminine] (Russian), seòmar-leughaidh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), čitaónica [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), čitalnica [feminine] (Slovene), bralnica [feminine] (Slovene), sala de lectura [feminine] (Spanish), läsesal [common-gender] (Swedish), silid-basahan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-reading_room-en-noun-vUETbRTx Disambiguation of 'space set aside for reading': 98 2
  2. A reference library. Categories (topical): Rooms
    Sense id: en-reading_room-en-noun-UOIYPZ5R Disambiguation of Rooms: 17 83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 94 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 12 88 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 91

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
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      "roman": "anagnostírio",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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      "word": "αναγνωστήριο"
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      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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      "code": "lv",
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      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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      "roman": "čitálʹnyj zal",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
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    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čitálʹnja",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чита́льня"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seòmar-leughaidh"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "čitaónica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "čitalnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bralnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sala de lectura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "läsesal"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "space set aside for reading",
      "word": "silid-basahan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "reading room"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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