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reader

Pronunciation: /ˈɹi.dɚ/

The English word “reader” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person who reads.
  2. A person who reads a publication.
  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.
  6. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
  7. A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
  8. Any device that reads something.
  9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language.
  11. A literary anthology.
  12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  13. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
  14. Reading glasses.
  15. Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
  16. A wallet or pocketbook.
  17. At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.

Etymology

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

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