reader.
A person who reads.
Meaning & usage
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.
A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
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, in a native language or a foreign language.
Appletons’ School Readers
A literary anthology.
A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
Reading glasses.
Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
A wallet or pocketbook.
At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
Where this word comes from
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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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.