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reader

/ˈɹi.dɚ/

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What does reader mean?

noun

  1. A person who reads.
  2. A person who reads a publication.
  3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
More meanings (19)

noun

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

proper noun

  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.
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IPA pronunciation

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The parts being thus distributed to the leaders, they commenced the first assault, of which the reader has already heard the issue.
Walter ScottIvanhoe: A RomanceProject Gutenberg ebook #82
The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108
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This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a million.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
We have a proof of this in the preface of the author to the reader with which the Mare au Diable begins.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
I can only indicate, at this place, the trend of my reasoning, and leave my reader to form whatever conclusion he pleases.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173