noun 2.a schoolbook for instruction and practice in
reading:
a second-grade reader. 3.a book of collected or assorted writings, especially when related in theme, authorship, or instructive purpose; anthology: a Hemingway reader; a sci-fi reader.
4.a person employed to
read and evaluate manuscripts offered for publication.
6.a person who
reads or recites before an audience; elocutionist.
7.a person authorized to
read the lessons, Bible, etc., in a church service.
8.a lecturer or instructor, especially in some British universities: to be appointed reader in English history.
9.an assistant to a professor, who grades examinations, papers, etc.
11.a machine or device that projects or enlarges a microform
image on a screen or other surface for
reading.
12.a playing card marked on its back so that the suit or denomination of the card can be identified.
13.Library Science. the user of a library; library
patron.
Origin: before 1000; Middle English reder(
e),
redar(
e),
Old English rǣdere. See
read1,
-er1 Related forms non·read·er, noun
sub·read·er, noun
un·der·read·er, noun
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