The readers of a newspaper, magazine, or book are the people who read it.
If you are a regular reader of Homes & Gardens you will know what an invaluable sourceof inspiration it is.
These texts give the reader an insight into the Chinese mind.
2. countable noun
A reader is a person who reads, especially one who reads for pleasure.
Thanks to that job I became an avid reader.
Their books are loved by young readers the world over.
Synonyms: book lover, bookworm, bibliophile, book reader More Synonyms of reader
3. countable noun
A reader is a person who reads books for a publisher in order to give an opinion on whether they should be published or not.
4. countable noun
In British universities, a reader is a senior lecturer, with a rank just below that of a professor.
John Stevenson is Reader in History at the University of Sheffield.
5. countable noun
In American universities and colleges, a reader is an assistant to a teacher. Readers' duties include reading and marking examination papers and other work.
6. countable noun
A reader is a book to help children to learn to read, or to help people to learn a foreign language. It contains passages of text, and often exercises to give practice in reading and writing.
More Synonyms of reader
reader in British English
(ˈriːdə)
noun
1.
a person who reads
2.
a person who is fond of reading
3.
a. mainly British
at a university, a member of staff having a position between that of a senior lecturer and a professor
b. US
a teaching assistant in a faculty who grades papers, examinations, etc, on behalf of a professor
4.
a.
a book that is part of a planned series for those learning to read
b.
a standard textbook, esp for foreign-language learning
5.
a person who reads aloud in public
6.
a person who reads and assesses the merit of manuscripts submitted to a publisher
7.
a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors by comparison with the original copy; proofreader
8. short for lay reader
9. Judaism, mainly British another word for cantor (sense 1)
reader in American English
(ˈridər)
noun
1.
a person who reads
2.
a person appointed or elected to read lessons, prayers, etc. aloud in church
see also lector
3.
a person who reads and evaluates manuscripts for a publication
4.
proofreader
5.
a person who records the readings of meters, etc., as for a public utilities company
: in full meter reader
6.
a.
a schoolbook containing stories, poems, etc. for use in teaching how to read
b.
an anthology or omnibus
7. British
a university teacher ranking below a professor: approximately equivalent to an associate professor in the U.S.
8.
an assistant who reads and marks examinations, themes, etc. for a professor
9. US
a magnifying device for viewing microfilm or microfiche
10.
one who reads, or interprets, lines in the palm of a hand, tea-leaf patterns, horoscopes, etc., as to predict the future
Examples of 'reader' in a sentence
reader
I refused to be fazed by the fact that Electra's a mega-star: she was simply a reader who needed my help.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002)
Now she had a whole cast of characters, and the reader would not know yet who were villains and who were heroes.
Lowry, Lois ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1) (2002)
Or he could send someone, maybe a fake meter reader or census taker.
Anita Anderson SOMEBODY (2002)
However, as any mystery reader knows, a dame accused of murder can't be too persnickety about the company she keeps.
Susan Isaacs AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (2002)
In other languages
reader
British English: reader /ˈriːdə/ NOUN
The readers of a book, newspaper, or magazine are the people who read it.
The book gives the reader an interesting view of life in the country.
American English: reader
Arabic: قَارِئ
Brazilian Portuguese: leitor
Chinese: 读者
Croatian: čitatelj
Czech: čtenář
Danish: læser
Dutch: lezer
European Spanish: lector
Finnish: lukija
French: lecteur
German: Leser
Greek: αναγνώστης
Italian: lettore
Japanese: 読者
Korean: 독자 잡지
Norwegian: leser
Polish: czytelnik
European Portuguese: leitor
Romanian: cititor
Russian: читатель
Latin American Spanish: lector
Swedish: läsare
Thai: ผู้อ่าน
Turkish: okuyucu
Ukrainian: читач
Vietnamese: độc giả
All related terms of 'reader'
e-reader
An e-reader is a device that you can carry with you and use to download and read texts in electronic form. E-reader is an abbreviation for 'e-book reader '.
card reader
a device, no longer widely used, for reading information on a punched card and transferring it to a computer
lay reader
a person licensed by a bishop to conduct religious services other than the Eucharist
mark reader
a computer peripheral device enabling letters, numbers , or other characters usually printed on paper to be optically scanned and input to a storage device, such as magnetic tape . The device uses the process of optical character recognition
mind reader
a person seemingly able to discern the thoughts of another
palm reader
someone who interprets character, tells fortunes , etc by the configuration of lines, marks, and bumps on a person's hand
graded reader
A graded reader is a story which has been adapted for people learning to read or learning a foreign language. Graded readers avoid using difficult grammar and vocabulary .
meter reader
a person who visits your house to read a gas or electricity meter
barcode reader
A barcode reader is an electronic scanning machine that reads and sends barcode information.
document reader
a device that reads and inputs into a computer marks and characters on a special form, as by optical or magnetic character recognition
Guardian reader
a reader of the Guardian newspaper, seen as being typically left-wing , liberal , and politically correct
implied reader
the hypothetical reader that a work is addressed to, whose thoughts, attitudes , etc, may differ from an actual reader's
thought-reader
someone who can read minds or psychically know others' thoughts
microfiche reader
a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfiche
microfilm reader
a machine that displays on a screen a magnified image of a microfilm
printer's reader
a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors
bar-code reader
an electronic machine that scans and reads bar codes
magnetic card reader
a device that scans and interprets information from a card with a magnetic stripe
optical character reader
a computer peripheral device enabling letters, numbers , or other characters usually printed on paper to be optically scanned and input to a storage device, such as magnetic tape . The device uses the process of optical character recognition
magnetic character reader
a device that automatically scans and interprets characters printed with magnetic ink . It operates by the process of magnetic character recognition
MSR
An MSR is a device that converts information on the magnetic stripe of a credit card into data that can be understood by retail software .
lip-read
If someone can lip-read , they are able to understand what someone else is saying by looking at the way the other person's lips move as they speak , without actually hearing any of the words.
lip-reading
a method used by deaf people to comprehend spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips
sight-read
Someone who can sight-read can play or sing music from a printed sheet the first time they see it, without practising it beforehand .
sight reading
the act or skill of performing unfamiliar written music, or of translating something written in a foreign language, readily on sight , without previous study
speed reading
a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming