'Reading room' definitions:
Definition of 'reading room'
From: WordNet
noun
A room set aside for reading
Definition of 'Reading room'
From: GCIDE
- Reading \Read"ing\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. [1913 Webster]
- Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.
- Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.
- Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.
- Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.
- Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort. [1913 Webster]