noun
Meaning 1
A desk at which someone may write.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Phrase guide
writing desk
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noun
Meaning 2
a desk for writing (usually with a sloping top)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: desk
noun
Meaning 3
a portable case containing writing materials and having a writing surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: case
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Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գրասեղան (graseġan) — desk
- Chinese Mandarin: 寫字檯 /写字台 (xiězìtái) — desk
- Chinese Mandarin: 書桌 /书桌 (shūzhuō) — desk
- Chinese Mandarin: 辦公桌 /办公桌 (bàngōngzhuō) — desk
- Czech: psací stůl — desk
- Dutch: bureau — desk
- Dutch: schrijftafel — desk
- Finnish: kirjoituspöytä — desk
- French: bureau — desk
- French: secrétaire — desk
- German: Schreibpult — desk
- German: Schreibtisch — desk
- Greek: γραφείο (grafeío) — desk
- Japanese: 書き物机 (kakimonodzukue) — desk
- Japanese: ライティングデスク (raitingu desuku) — desk
- Japanese: 机 (tsukue) — desk
- Korean: 책상 (chaeksang) — desk
- Pannonian Rusyn: писаци стол (pisaci stol) — desk
- Plautdietsch: Schriewdesch — desk
- Polish: biurko — desk
- Russian: пи́сьменный стол (písʹmennyj stol) — desk
- Russian: па́рта (párta) — desk
- Spanish: escritorio — desk
- Spanish: buró — desk
- Turkish: yazı masası — desk
- Turkish: yazıhane — desk
- Turkish: yazak — desk
- Vietnamese: bàn viết — desk
- Volapük: penamatab — desk