reader
See also: Reader
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹidɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːdə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Noun
reader (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, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 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 630079698, 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."
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- (chiefly Britain) 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.
- Synonym: reading notice
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- 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."
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1 (page 286)
Derived terms
- early reader
- e-reader
- first reader
Translations
person who reads a publication
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person who recites literary works, usually to an audience
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proofreader — see proofreader
person employed by a publisher to read works and determine their merits
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lecturer — see lecturer
any device that reads something
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a book of exercises to accompany a textbook
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an elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages
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a literary anthology
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Anagrams
- dearer, re-read, reared, reread