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Definition: Lectern |
LecternNoun1. Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lectern" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
General | Reading stand with slanted top. Can be a tabletop lectern or one which stands on the floor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LecternSynonym: reading desk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
School | Pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune. |
Temple | Chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum, jube; mourner's bench, mourner's seat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lectern |
| English words defined with "lectern": Lecturn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lectern": speaker's desk. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hammond Organ Company, business at 50 W. 57th St., New York City. Main showroom, lectern and console.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | National Cathedral interiors. Pulpit, rood screen and lectern in National Cathedral.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Lectern" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.73% of the time. "Lectern" is used about 79 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.73% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "lectern": pulpit-lectern. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lectern | 82 |
podium lectern | 14 |
table top lectern | 9 |
multimedia lectern | 8 |
hangings lectern | 4 |
acrylic lectern | 4 |
portable lectern | 4 |
lectern bible | 3 |
sale lectern | 3 |
lectern manufacturing | 2 |
barcalounger lectern | 2 |
build lectern | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lectern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | lessenaar (desk, school desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pupitër (music stand, music-rack, stand), këmbalkë për librat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منضدة للقراءة, المقرأ منصة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | аналой (desk, reading desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 讲"台. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pulpit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | laesepult, læsepult (speaker's desk), talerstol (speaker's desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lessenaar (desk, escritoire, music stand, school desk, speaker's desk), lezenaar (desk, school desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pupitro (desk, school desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | میزمخصوص قراءت , میزجاکتابی , تریبون (Tribune). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lutrin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rednerpult (rostrum, speaker's desk), lesepult (bookrest), Pult (console, desk, music stand, school desk, school-desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναλόγιο (bookstand, music stand, speaker's desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עמו" קריא" (reading desk), אלמימר (reader's desk in synagogue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | olvasópolc, pulpitus (chair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | leggio (music stand, music-holder, reading desk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shasstan lioaragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecternlay atril (lection, ledge, speaker's desk). (various references) stranã (choir, pew, stall), pupitru (desk, reading desk, stand). (various references) пюпитр (easel, music stand, music-rack, reading desk, reading-desk). (various references) pult (drop counter, rostrum, stand), naslon za čitanje (reading desk). (various references) facistol (insolent), atril (bookrest, music stand, music-rack, reading desk, speaker's desk). (various references) läspulpet (reading desk). (various references) rahle (faldstool), kürsü (bench, chair, dais, desk, green table, professorial chair, professorship, pulpit, rostrum, stand, Tribune). (various references) аналой (prie-dieu, reading desk). (various references) darllenfa (reading desk, reading room). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | legere. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | lectrinum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lectern": lecterns. (additional references) | |
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"Lectern" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: latern, Lautern, Lecerf, lecern, Leckernby, Leclerq, lecteen, lecten, lecter, lecteur, lecther, lectin, lectirn, lectr, lectron, lektorin, letern, litern, Logteren, lustern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lectern" (pronounced le"ktern) |
| 3 | -t er n | cistern, eastern, intern, lantern, midwestern, northeastern, northwestern, pattern, southeastern, southwestern, western. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: center, centre, crenel, recent, relent, tenrec, tercel. | |
-2 letters: creel, elect, enter, erect, relet, rente, terce, terne, treen. | |
-3 letters: celt, cent, cere, cete, erne, leer, leet, lent, reel, rent, rete, teel, teen, tele, tern, tree. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, ere, ern, lee, let, nee, net, rec, ree, ret, tee, tel, ten. | |
-5 letters: el, en, er, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: electron, lecterns, recently, relucent. | |
+2 letters: calenture, celebrant, centraler, centriole, coeternal, crenulate, electrons, intercell, interlace, neglecter, princelet, rectangle, stenciler, tolerance, ventricle. | |
+3 letters: accelerant, calentures, cantilever, celebrants, centerfold, centerless, centerline, centiliter, centralest, centralise, centralize, centrioles, clinometer, coelentera, coherently, concretely, credential, crenelated, crenulated, electroing, electronic, enterocoel, epicentral, florescent, interlaced, interlaces, linecaster, mercantile, neglecters, percentile, prelecting, prelection, princelets, rectangles, reelecting, reelection, reflecting, reflection, reluctance, reticently, stencilers, stenciller, tabernacle, tolerances, trancelike, truculence, turbulence, turtleneck, unclearest, ventricles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 63 74 65 72 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . -.-. - . .-. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e c t e r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0063 0074 0065 0072 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46716986718480 |
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