reading room

English

A reading room in Moscow

Noun

reading room (plural reading rooms)

1. A dedicated space in a library, or similar institution of learning, set aside for reading.

   Synonym: athenaeum

   • 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:

     There is also a fine dance and concert hall, a capacious reading room, a well-appointed billiards room with five tables, various committee and games rooms, photographic dark rooms, and a small but compact ladies' lounge.

2. A reference library.

Related terms

• reading the room

Translations

space set aside for reading

• Arabic: قَاعَة ٱلْمُطَالَعَة f (qāʕat al-muṭālaʕa)
• Armenian: ընթերցասրահ (hy) (əntʻercʻasrah)
• Basque: irakurgela (eu)
• Bulgarian: читалня f (čitalnja)
• Catalan: sala de lectura f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 閱覽室 / 阅览室 (zh) (yuèlǎnshì), 閱讀室 / 阅读室 (yuèdúshì), 圖書室 / 图书室 (zh) (túshūshì)

• Czech: čítárna f
• Danish: læsesal c
• Dutch: leeszaal (nl) f
• Estonian: lugemissaal
• Finnish: lukusali (fi)
• French: salle de lecture (fr) f
• German: Lesesaal (de) m
• Greek: αναγνωστήριο (el) n (anagnostírio)
• Hungarian: olvasóterem (hu)
• Italian: sala di lettura f
• Japanese: 読書室 (どくしょしつ, dokushoshitsu), 閲覧室 (ja) (えつらんしつ, etsuranshitsu)
• Korean: 독서실 (dokseosil), 열람실 (ko) (yeollamsil)
• Latvian: lasītava f
• Macedonian: читалница f (čitalnica), читална f (čitalna)
• Pannonian Rusyn: читальня f (čitalʹnja)
• Plautdietsch: Lässtow f
• Polish: czytelnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sala de leitura f
• Russian: чита́льный зал (ru) m (čitálʹnyj zal), чита́льня (ru) f (čitálʹnja)
• Scottish Gaelic: seòmar-leughaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: čitaónica (sh) f

• Slovene: čitalnica f, bralnica f
• Spanish: sala de lectura f
• Swedish: läsesal (sv) c
• Tagalog: silid-basahan

reference library — see reference library