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reader
English
Etymology
From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English r?dere, r?dere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *r?d?ri, equivalent to read +? -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??id?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??i?d?/
- Rhymes: -i?d?(?)
Noun
reader (plural readers)
- A person who reads.
- an early reader, a talented reader
- A person who reads a publication.
- 10,000 weekly readers
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A proofreader.
- Synonyms: proofreader, printer's reader
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- Synonyms: publisher's reader, first reader
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 123, [1]
- They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
- (chiefly Britain) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- Any device that reads something.
- a card reader, a microfilm reader
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- A literary anthology.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- Synonym: reading notice
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheats.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1 (page 286)
- LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
- 1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception (page 185)
- Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1 (page 286)
Derived terms
- early reader
- e-reader
Translations
Anagrams
- dearer, re-read, reared, reread
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readerless
English
Etymology
reader +? -less
Adjective
readerless (not comparable)
- Devoid of readers.
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