Pronunciations (5)
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/ˈɹi.dɚ/
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/ˈɹiː.də/
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/ˈɹiː.dɐ/
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- Northumbria
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ˈɹidɚ
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ˈɹiːdə
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- GB
Noun
A person who reads.
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an early reader, a talented reader
A person who reads a publication.
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10,000 weekly readers
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In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
A proofreader.
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A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
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They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
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"I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."
A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
Usage- UK usage
Any device that reads something.
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a card reader, a microfilm reader
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The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.
A quick search on Kaiser's website, there was nothing that talked about plate readers or a usage policy.
A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
An elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language.
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Appletons’ School Readers
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[Editor David W. Blight said:] In 1795, after producing his own geography textbook, modeled on Jedidiah Morse’s famous Geography (1784), Bingham resigned as a teacher in the Boston schools, opened a bookstore on Cornhill Street in Boston, and devoted himself to producing schoolbooks. In Boston in 1797, he published the first of approximately 23 editions of The Columbian Orator. By the first two decades of the nineteenth century, in vast stretches of rural America, including the South, Bingham’s readers joined the Bible and an occasional almanac as the only books in many homesteads. […] Finally, Bingham saw the early American republic as a new political beginning for humankind, and his more than one million schoolbooks sold across the land were designed to produce republican citizens. The Columbian Orator was an elocution manual as well as a reader for school children in the new republic.
A literary anthology.
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A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories.
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.
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Reading glasses.
Usage- in-plural
Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
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LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
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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."
A wallet or pocketbook.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
Noun
a person who enjoys reading
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someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
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a person who can read; a literate person
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someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
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someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
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someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
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a public lecturer at certain universities
one of a series of texts for students learning to read
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