reading room
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of reading room
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“There are places where men want to be by themselves,” said one member, who spent years going there to read when the bar housed a reading room.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The decision to revoke Wilde's pass for the library - then the British Museum reading room - was recorded without comment in the trustees' minutes for 15 June 1895.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025
The pandemic closed the reading room, once open five days a week, four hours a day.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2024
What does remain consistent between the 1993 version and today’s installation is the presence of a reading room at the center of the show.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2023
The rule here is that one must be escorted up to the reading room in a lift, whose cramped space makes small talk compulsory as far as I’m concerned.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
