English Explanatory Dictionary

reader

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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, especially for foreign languages.
  11. A literary anthology.
  12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
noun
  1. Alternative form of reader (“a lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service”).
name
  1. A surname
  2. A census-designated place in Nevada County and Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Western Mound Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.
  4. A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, named after the Reader Run creek.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹidɚ/ /ˈɹiːdə/ en-us-reader.ogg

Word forms

reader readers

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”).

Synonyms

proofreader printer's reader publisher's reader first reader reading notice

Derived words

barcode reader beta reader blind reader book-reader card reader copyreader counterreader early reader e-book reader email reader e-reader exercise for the reader feedreader first reader hyperreader interreader intrareader lay reader lipreader microplate reader microreader mind reader mind-reader newsreader nonreader palm reader plate reader playreader prereader proof reader proof-reader readerbase readerboard reader copy readerdom readeress readerless readerly readership rip-and-reader scorereader screen reader sensitivity reader sight-reader stall-reader subreader wreader
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