reader

1 a person who enjoys reading

2 someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication [syn: subscriber]

3 a person who can read; a literate person

4 someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication [syn: reviewer, referee]

5 someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections [syn: proofreader]

6 someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: lector]

7 a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lector, lecturer]

8 one of a series of texts for students learning to read

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdə(r)

Etymology

-er read

Noun

1. A person who reads a publication.
2. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
3. A proofreader.
4. In the context of "mostly|UK": A university lecturer below a professor.
5. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
6. A literary anthology.
7. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
8. A device such as a card reader or microfilm reader.
9. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

Translations

• French: lecteur lectrice
• Italian: lettore , lettrice
• Portuguese: leitor , leitora (1)

Reader can mean:

• a reader: a person who is reading a text.

• A family name:
  • Colin Reader, English geologist
  • Eddi Reader, Scottish singer
  • Francis Reader (born 1965) , Scottish musician
  • Ralph Reader (1903-1982), British director and producer, famous for originating the Gang Show in Scouting
  • Ted Reader, a well renowned Canadian chef

• A person whose job or role is to read:
  • A publisher's reader, also called a first reader
  • Historically, a person who entertained cigar factory workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, also known as a lector; see cigar manufacture
  • Reader (liturgy), someone charged with reading Scripture in church (also called a Lector)
  • Reader (Christian Science Church), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church, also called a First Reader or Second Reader
  • In the Anglican Church, a Reader is a person appointed to conduct services other than Holy Communion in the Church of England; (equivalent to lay reader in Episcopal Churches).
  • Reader (academic rank), the British academic rank between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor

• A place:
  • Reader, Arkansas
  • Reader, Illinois
  • Reader, West Virginia

• Various newspapers and magazines, including:
  • The Chicago Reader, a newsweekly
  • Los Angeles Reader, a weekly paper, now defunct
  • High Plains Reader, an independent weekly tabloid
  • The Reader (Omaha weekly), an alternative weekly newspaper in Omaha, Nebraska
  • The Reader (magazine), a literary quarterly published by the University of Liverpool
  • The San Diego Reader, a weekly newspaper in San Diego, California
  • The Weekly Reader, an educational magazine for children
  • Utne Reader, a periodical

• In computing/technology, devices or programs such as:
  • Adobe Reader
  • Google Reader
  • Microsoft Reader
  • Sony Reader
  • The e-Reader, by Nintendo
  • Bible Reader for Palm
  • screen reader

Other meanings:

• Reader-response criticism, a primarily German and American literary theory
• The Reader, a novel by Bernhard Schlink
• A basal reader, a textbook used in reading education:
  • McGuffey Readers, examples of these
• An anthology: a book of different pieces of writing, often by many authors, for example:
  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
• Plate reader (or microplate reader), a laboratory instrument

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