reader
Americannoun
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a person who reads.
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a schoolbook for instruction and practice in reading.
a second-grade reader.
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a book of collected or assorted writings, especially when related in theme, authorship, or instructive purpose; anthology.
a Hemingway reader; a sci-fi reader.
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a person employed to read and evaluate manuscripts offered for publication.
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a proofreader.
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a person who reads or recites before an audience; elocutionist.
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a person authorized to read the lessons, Bible, etc., in a church service.
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a lecturer or instructor, especially in some British universities.
to be appointed reader in English history.
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an assistant to a professor, who grades examinations, papers, etc.
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Computers. a device that reads data, programs, or control information from an external storage medium for transmission to main storage.
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a machine or device that projects or enlarges a microform image on a screen or other surface for reading.
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a playing card marked on its back so that the suit or denomination of the card can be identified.
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Library Science. the user of a library; library patron.
noun
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a person who reads
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a person who is fond of reading
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at a university, a member of staff having a position between that of a senior lecturer and a professor
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a teaching assistant in a faculty who grades papers, examinations, etc, on behalf of a professor
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a book that is part of a planned series for those learning to read
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a standard textbook, esp for foreign-language learning
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a person who reads aloud in public
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a person who reads and assesses the merit of manuscripts submitted to a publisher
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a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors by comparison with the original copy; proofreader
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short for lay reader
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Judaism another word for cantor
Other Word Forms
- nonreader noun
- subreader noun
- underreader noun
Etymology
Origin of reader
before 1000; Middle English reder ( e ), redar ( e ), Old English rǣdere. See read 1, -er 1
Example Sentences
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There were other influences: He was reportedly a voracious reader of Victor Hugo, John Steinbeck and Leo Tolstoy.
From Los Angeles Times
Border Patrol provides little information about its use of license plate readers on its website.
From Los Angeles Times
This week he helped two readers who had questions on how to help relatives suffering legal difficulties stemming from dementia:
From MarketWatch
But those readers who have discovered “The Marble Faun,” his shadowy and mystic last novel, know a very different writer.
The rejection eats at Annie, who, to the frustration of all who know her—and, eventually, this reader—can’t accept her loss.
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