reader

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːdə(r)

Etymology

to read + -er

Noun

reader (plural readers)

1. A person who reads a publication.
2. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
3. A proofreader.
4. (chiefly UK) A university lecturer below a professor.
5. Any device that reads something.

   a card reader, a microfilm reader

6. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
7. A literary anthology.
8. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
9. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

Derived terms

• early reader

Translations

person who reads a publication

• Arabic: قارئ (ar) (qaari') m, قارئة (ar) (qaari'a) f
• Breton: lenner (br) m
• Catalan: lector (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讀者 (cmn), 读者 (cmn) (dúzhě)

• Czech: čtenář (cs) m
• Danish: læser (da) c
• Dutch: lezer (nl) m
• Esperanto: leganto (eo)
• Faroese: lesari (fo) m
• French: lecteur (fr) m, lectrice (fr) f
• German: Leser (de) m, Leserin (de) f
• Hindi: पाठक (hi) (pāṭhak) m
• Icelandic: lesandi (is) m
• Irish: léitheoir (ga) m
• Italian: lettore (it) m, lettrice (it) f
• Japanese: 読者 (ja) (どくしゃ, dokusha), リーダー (ja) (rīdā)
• Lojban: tcidu (jbo)

• Low Saxon (Low German): Leser (nds) m, Leserin (nds) f, Lesersch (nds) f, Lesersche (nds) f, Läser (nds) m, Läserin (nds) f, Läsersch (nds) f, Läsersche (nds) f
• Polish: czytelnik (pl) m, czytelniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: leitor (pt) m
• Russian: читатель (ru) (čitátel'), читательница (ru) (čitátel'nica) f
• Scottish Gaelic: leughadair (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чѝтатељ (sh) m, чѝталац (sh) m, читатѐљица (sh) f

  Roman: čìtatelj (sh) m, čìtalac (sh) m, čitatèljica (sh) f

• Skolt Sami: lookki
• Slovak: čitateľ (sk) m
• Spanish: lector (es) m, lectora (es) f
• Swedish: läsare (sv) c
• Welsh: darllenydd (cy) m
• Yola: readeare

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• Portuguese: leitor m, leitora f (1)

Anagrams

• dearer
• reared
• reread