English Online Dictionary. What means reader? What does reader mean?
English
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”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹidɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːdə/
- Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Noun
reader (plural readers)
- A person who reads.
- A person who reads a publication.
- 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
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- (chiefly British) 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 cheaters.
- (obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- dearer, re-read, reared, reread