English
reader
see also: Reader
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈɹidɚ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈɹiːdə/
Noun

reader (plural readers)

  1. A person who reads
    an early reader, a talented reader
  2. A person who reads a publication.
    10,000 weekly readers
  3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  4. A proofreader.
  5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 123,
      They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
  6. (chiefly, British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
  7. Any device that reads something.
    a card reader, a microfilm reader
  8. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  9. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
  10. A literary anthology.
  11. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  12. (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
    Synonyms: reading notice
  13. (in the plural) Reading glasses.
  14. (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheats.
    • 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1 (page 286)
      LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
    • 1991, John Bowyer Bell, ‎Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception (page 185)
      Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."
Translations Translations Translations
  • German: Verlagslektor
Translations
  • German: Lesegerät
  • Russian: счи́тыватель
Translations
  • German: Übungsbuch, Übungsheft
Translations
  • German: Lesebuch
  • Russian: хрестома́тия
Translations
Reader
Noun

reader (plural readers)

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


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