READING DESK

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does reading desk mean? 

• READING DESK (noun)
  The noun READING DESK has 1 sense:

1. desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer

  Familiarity information: READING DESK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• READING DESK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lectern; reading desk

Hypernyms ("reading desk" is a kind of...):

stand (a small table for holding articles of various kinds)

 Context examples 

It was his custom of a Sunday, when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)