reader
see also: Reader
Etymology
Reader
Noun
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see also: Reader
Etymology
From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere, from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er.
Pronunciation Nounreader (plural readers)
- A person who reads.
- an early reader, a talented reader
- A person who reads a publication.
- 10,000 weekly readers
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A proofreader.
- Synonyms: proofreader, printer's reader
A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits. - Synonyms: publisher's reader, first reader
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 123:
- They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC ↗, pages 83–84 ↗:
- "I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."
- (chiefly, British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- Any device that reads something.
- a card reader, a microfilm reader
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- Appletons’ School Readers
- A literary anthology.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- Synonyms: reading notice
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- 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."
- (obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
- […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
- French: lecteur, lectrice
- German: Leser, Leserin
- Italian: lettore, lettrice
- Portuguese: leitor, leitora
- Russian: чита́тель
- Spanish: lector, lectora
- German: Lesegerät
- Portuguese: leitor
- Russian: счи́тыватель
- Spanish: lector
- German: Übungsbuch, Übungsheft, Reader
- German: Lesebuch
- Russian: хрестома́тия
- German: Anthologie, Blütenlese
- Portuguese: antologia
- Russian: антоло́гия
Reader
Noun
reader (plural readers)
- (religion) A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead most services in the Anglican Church
- Surname
- CDP in Nevada County, and.
- An unincorporated community in Western Mound, Macoupin County.
- CDP in Wetzel County, West Virginia, named after the Reader Run creek.
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