reader

Plural: readers

Noun

• A person who reads, especially for pleasure or study.
• a person who enjoys reading
• someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
• a person who can read; a literate person
• someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
• someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
• someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
• a public lecturer at certain universities
• one of a series of texts for students learning to read
• A person who reads.
• A person who reads a publication.
• A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
• A proofreader.
• A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
• A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
• A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
• Any device that reads something.
• A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
• An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
• A literary anthology.
• A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
• A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
• Reading glasses.
• Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
• A wallet or pocketbook.
• At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.

Examples

• 10,000 weekly readers
• a card reader, a microfilm reader
• an early reader, a talented reader
• Appletons’ School Readers
• As an avid READER, she always had a wide vocabulary to draw from for her Scrabble games.

Synonyms

lector, lecturer, proofreader, referee, reviewer, subscriber, first reader, printer's reader, publisher's reader, reading notice