Associations to the word «Lectern»

Wiktionary

LECTERN, noun. A stand with a slanted top used to support a bible from which passages are read during a church service.
LECTERN, noun. A similar stand to support a lecturer's notes.

Dictionary definition

LECTERN, noun. Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne