READER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reader mean? 

• READER (noun)
  The noun READER has 8 senses:

1. a person who enjoys reading

2. someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

3. a person who can read; a literate person

4. someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

5. someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections

6. someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

7. a public lecturer at certain universities

8. one of a series of texts for students learning to read

  Familiarity information: READER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• READER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who enjoys reading

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

bookman; scholar; scholarly person; student (a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):

bookworm (someone who spends a great deal of time reading)

Derivation:

read (interpret something that is written or printed)

read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed)

readership (the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

reader; subscriber

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who can read; a literate person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

literate; literate person (a person who can read and write)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):

decipherer (a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text)

map-reader (a person who can read maps)

skimmer (a rapid superficial reader)

Derivation:

read (interpret something that is written or printed)

read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed)

readership (the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

reader; referee; reviewer

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

critic (anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):

scanner (someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

proofreader; reader

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lector; reader

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Holy Order; Order ((usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A public lecturer at certain universities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

lector; lecturer; reader

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Sense 8

Meaning:

One of a series of texts for students learning to read

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):

school text; schoolbook; text; text edition; textbook (a book prepared for use in schools or colleges)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):

McGuffey Eclectic Readers (readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages)

 Context examples 

If you are a Taurus reader who has a May birthday, you will have your chance—just wait as Jupiter and Uranus orbit into later degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Alas! the readers of our era are less favoured.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The ceremonies at my departure were too many to trouble the reader with at this time.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The editors and readers were back from their summer vacations, and manuscripts were being handled quickly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And now my patient readers, I can address you directly no longer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Artifacts resulting from the electronics of the plate reader or from issues associated with the image plate.

(Plate-reader Artifact, NCI Thesaurus)

You yourself, brother Francis, have twice raised your voice, so it hath come to my ears, when the reader in the refectory hath been dealing with the lives of God's most blessed saints.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“I deserve neither such praise nor such censure,” cried Elizabeth; “I am not a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)