Definition of Reader

1. Noun. A person who enjoys reading.

Specialized synonyms: Bookworm
Generic synonyms: Bookman, Scholar, Scholarly Person, Student
Derivative terms: Read, Read, Readership

2. Noun. Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication.
Exact synonyms: Subscriber
Generic synonyms: Client, Customer
Derivative terms: Subscribe

3. Noun. A person who can read; a literate person.
Specialized synonyms: Decipherer, Map-reader, Skimmer
Generic synonyms: Literate, Literate Person
Derivative terms: Read, Read, Readership

4. Noun. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication.
Exact synonyms: Referee, Reviewer
Generic synonyms: Critic
Specialized synonyms: Scanner
Derivative terms: Refer, Referee, Review

5. Noun. Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections.
Exact synonyms: Proofreader
Generic synonyms: Pressman, Printer
Derivative terms: Proofread

6. Noun. Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church.
Exact synonyms: Lector
Generic synonyms: Clergyman, Man Of The Cloth, Reverend, Holy Order, Order

7. Noun. A public lecturer at certain universities.
Exact synonyms: Lector, Lecturer
Generic synonyms: Educator, Pedagog, Pedagogue
Derivative terms: Lecture

8. Noun. One of a series of texts for students learning to read.
Generic synonyms: School Text, Schoolbook, Text, Text Edition, Textbook
Specialized synonyms: Mcguffey Eclectic Readers

Definition of Reader

1. n. One who reads.

Definition of Reader

1. Noun. (religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead most services in the Anglican Church. ¹

2. Noun. A person who reads a publication. ¹

3. Noun. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience. ¹

4. Noun. A proofreader. ¹

5. Noun. (chiefly British) A university lecturer below a professor. ¹

6. Noun. Any device that reads something. ¹

7. Noun. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook. ¹

8. Noun. A literary anthology. ¹

9. Noun. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service. ¹

10. Noun. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reader

1. one that reads [n -S] - See also: reads

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reader

readditions
readdress
readdressable
readdressed
readdresses
readdressing
readds
readee
readees
readen
readept
readepted
readepting
readeption
readepts
readerboard
readerboards
readerdom
readerless
readerly
readers
readership
readerships
readest
readeth
readibility
readie
readied
readier

Literary usage of Reader

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library Journal by Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1899)
"The distinctive features of the Browne system are : the reader carries no card, the charging requires no writing and but one dating (that on the book-pocket ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Images reduced to lowest terms as powers of reader increase. The next stage of development in writing began when the pictographic forms were reduced in ..."

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