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- 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.
- 1 A person who reads.
"an early reader, a talented reader"
- 2 Alternative form of reader (“a lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 one of a series of texts for students learning to read wordnet
- 4 A person who reads a publication.
"10,000 weekly readers"
- 5 a public lecturer at certain universities wordnet
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- 6 A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- 7 someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church wordnet
- 8 A proofreader.
- 9 someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections wordnet
- 10 A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
"They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman."
- 11 a person who enjoys reading wordnet
- 12 A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
""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.""
- 13 a person who can read; a literate person wordnet
- 14 A university lecturer ranking below a professor. British
- 15 someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication wordnet
- 16 Any device that reads something.
"a card reader, a microfilm reader"
- 17 someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication wordnet
- 18 A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- 19 An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
"Appletons’ School Readers"
- 20 A literary anthology.
"A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories."
- 21 A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- 22 A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- 23 Reading glasses. in-plural
- 24 Marked playing cards used by cheaters. in-plural, slang
"LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses."
- 25 A wallet or pocketbook. obsolete, slang
"[…] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]"
- 26 At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
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”).
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