# reader
## 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: /ˈɹidɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɹiːdə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)

### Noun

reader (plural readers)
* A person who reads.
    an early reader, a talented reader
* A person who reads a publication.
    10,000 weekly readers
** 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN‎: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.
    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
** 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎, page 123: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.
** 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 83–84:"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."
* (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
* Any device that reads something.
    a card reader, a microfilm reader
** 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian‎: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 book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
* An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
    Appletons’ School Readers
* A literary anthology.
** 1981 December 1, Thomas Hopkinson, “Streetboy Dreams; The Boy Harlequin and Other Stories (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 10:A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin and Other Stories.
* 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.
** 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
** 1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185: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."
* (obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
** 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:[…] 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.

#### Derived terms

* barcode reader
* beta reader
* blind reader
* book-reader
* card reader
* early reader
* e-book reader
* email reader
* e-reader
* exercise for the reader
* first reader
* lay reader
* microplate reader
* mind-reader
* mind reader
* palm reader
* plate reader
* proof reader
* proof-reader
* rip-and-reader
* screen reader
* sensitivity reader
* sight-reader
* stall-reader

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* dearer, re-read, reared, reread