reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹidɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːdə/
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: readers
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”).
Senses: examples: text: an early reader, a talented reader
glosses: A person who reads.
examples: text: 10,000 weekly readers
text: 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.”
ref: 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who reads a publication.
glosses: A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
synonyms: proofreader
printer's reader
glosses: A proofreader.
examples: text: They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia, page 123:
synonyms: publisher's reader
first reader
glosses: A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
examples: text: "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."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 83–84:
glosses: A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
glosses: A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
examples: text: a card reader, a microfilm reader
text: 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.
ref: 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any device that reads something.
glosses: A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
examples: text: Appletons’ School Readers
glosses: An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1981 December 1, Thomas Hopkinson, “Streetboy Dreams; The Boy Harlequin and Other Stories (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 10:
glosses: A literary anthology.
glosses: A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
synonyms: reading notice
glosses: A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
glosses: Reading glasses.
examples: text: LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
ref: 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:
text: 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."
ref: 1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
examples: text: […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
ref: 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
glosses: A wallet or pocketbook.
glosses: 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
copyreader
counterreader
early reader
e-book reader
email reader
e-reader
exercise for the reader
feedreader
first reader
hyperreader
interreader
intrareader
lay reader
lipreader
microplate reader
microreader
mind reader
mind-reader
newsreader
nonreader
palm reader
plate reader
playreader
prereader
proof-reader
proof reader
readerbase
readerboard
reader copy
readerdom
readeress
readerless
readerly
readership
rip-and-reader
scorereader
screen reader
sensitivity reader
sight-reader
stall-reader
subreader
wreader