reader

Meaning

1. A person who reads.
2. A person who reads a publication.
3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
4. A proofreader.
5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
6. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
7. A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
8. Any device that reads something.
9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
11. A literary anthology.
12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
13. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
14. Reading glasses.
15. (slang) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
16. (obsolete,slang) A wallet or pocketbook.

Synonyms

lector

lecturer

proofreader

subscriber

reviewer

literate person

textbook

📖

chrestomathy

teacher

🧑‍🏫

referee

primer

senior lecturer

anthology

reading book

reading-book

reading device

reciter

schoolbook

sensor

sexton

sorter

storybook

student

🧑‍🎓

school book

section man

one who reads

one who studies

leturer

anagnost

lay reader

admirer

reading machine

assistant professor

bookworm

buyer

counter

digest

don

drive

editor

gospeller

parish clerk

player

preceptor

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹidɚ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reder

Inherited from Old English: rēdere

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Räider

Cognate with Dutch: rader

Cognate with German: Rater

In summary

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”).

Sentences

He was a voracious reader and a keen writer .