carrel
pronunciation
How to pronounce carrel in British English:
UK [ˈkærəl]
How to pronounce carrel in American English:
US [ˈkærəl]
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- Noun:
- small individual study area in a library
Word Origin
- carrel (n.)
- 1590s, "study in a cloister," from Medieval Latin carula "small study in a cloister," which is of unknown origin; perhaps from Latin corolla "little crown, garland," used in various senses of "ring" (for example, a c. 1330 description of Stonehenge: "þis Bretons renged about þe feld, þe karole of þe stones beheld"); extended to precincts and spaces enclosed by rails, etc. Specific sense of "private cubicle in a library" is from 1919.
Example
- 1. He 's got a carrel down here ?
- 2. You know , I found her name carved into my study carrel .
- 3. He then returned to his carrel for his own research .
- 4. Carrel distinguishes two forms of schemata : formal and content , and this thesis emphasizes particular on content schema which refers to the background knowledge about the content area of a text .