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noun - desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
A reading desk with a slanted top holding the books from which scriptural passages are read during a church service.
A stand that serves as a support for the notes or books of a speaker.
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Stand with a sloping top that serves to support a book; its 1st known appearance was in Byzantium |
From the Latin for "to read", it's a reading desk with a slanted top in a church |
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a tall stand with a sloping top to hold a book or notes, from which someone, typically a preacher or lecturer, can read while standing up. |
desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer |
A tall stand with a sloping top to hold a book or notes, from which someone, typically a preacher or lecturer, can read while standing up. |
A reading desk with a slanted top holding the books from which scriptural passages are read during a church service. |
A stand that serves as a support for the notes or books of a speaker. |
a piece of furniture with a sloping part on which a book or paper is put to be read from |
a tall, narrow piece of furniture having a sloping part that holds a book or papers to be read from while standing |
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A lectern (from the Latin lectus, past participle of legere, "to read") is a reading desk, with a slanted top, usually placed on a stand or affixed to some other form of support, on which documents or books are placed as support for reading aloud, as in a scripture reading, lecture, or sermon. To facilitate eye-contact and improve posture when facing an audience, lecterns may have adjustable height and slant. People generally use lecterns while standing. * In pre-modern usage, the word lectern was used to refer specifically to the "reading desk or stand ... from which the Scripture lessons (lectiones) ... are chanted or read." One 1905 dictionary states that "the term is properly applied only to the class mentioned [church book stands] as independent of the pulpit." By the 1920s, however, the term was being used in a broader sense, for example, in reference to a memorial service in Carnegie Hall, it was stated that "the lectern from which the speakers talked was enveloped in black." |