Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun desktop

2 senses of desktop

Sense 1
desktop -- (the top of a desk)
       => top, top side, upper side, upside -- (the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted")

Sense 2
background, desktop, screen background -- ((computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear)
       => screen, CRT screen -- (the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube)