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read·er  (rdr)

n.

1. One that reads.

2. One who publicly recites literary works.

3.

a. A person employed by a publisher to read and evaluate manuscripts.

b. One who corrects printers' proofs; a proofreader.

4. A teaching assistant who reads and grades examination papers.

5. Chiefly British A university teacher, especially one ranking next below a professor.

6.

a. A textbook of reading exercises.

b. An anthology, especially a literary anthology.

7. A layperson or minor cleric who recites lessons or prayers in church services.

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reader [ˈriːdə]

n

1. a person who reads

2. a person who is fond of reading

3. (Social Science / Education)

a.  Chiefly Brit 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. (Social Science / Education)

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. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) a person who reads and assesses the merit of manuscripts submitted to a publisher

7. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) a person employed to read proofs and indicate errors by comparison with the original copy; proofreader

8. (Christianity / Anglicanism) (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) short for lay reader

9. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) Judaism chiefly Brit another word for cantor [1]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	reader - a person who enjoys reading           bookworm - someone who spends a great deal of time reading 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
	2.	reader - someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication subscriber customer, client - someone who pays for goods or services
	3.	reader - a person who can read; a literate person decipherer - a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text literate, literate person - a person who can read and write map-reader - a person who can read maps; "he is a good map-reader" skimmer - a rapid superficial reader
	4.	reader - someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication reviewer, referee critic - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something scanner - someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
	5.	reader - someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections proofreader pressman, printer - someone whose occupation is printing
	6.	reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church lector 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; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"
	7.	reader - a public lecturer at certain universities lecturer, lector educator, pedagog, pedagogue - someone who educates young people
	8.	reader - one of a series of texts for students learning to read school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, text - a book prepared for use in schools or colleges; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" McGuffey Eclectic Readers - readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages

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reader

noun book lover, bookworm, bibliophile, book reader, book collector Thanks to that job I became an avid reader.

Translations

reader [ˈriːdəʳ] N

1. (= person who reads) → lector(a) m/f; (in library) → usuario/a m/f
he's a great reader → lee mucho, es muy aficionado a la lectura
I'm not much of a reader → leo poco, no me interesan mucho los libros
see also lay ³

2. (also publisher's reader) → lector(a) m/f
see also proofreader

3. (Univ) → profesor(a) m/f adjunto/a

4. (= schoolbook) (to teach reading) → libro m de lectura; (= anthology) → antología f

5. (= machine) → máquina f lectora, aparato m lector
see also microfiche, optical

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reader [ˈriːdə^r] n

[magazine, book, paper] → lecteur/trice m/f

(= book) → livre m de lecture

(British) (at university) → maître m de conférences

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reader

n

→ Leser(in) m(f); publisher’s reader → Lektor(in) m(f)

(Brit Univ) → ˜ Dozent(in) m(f)

(= schoolbook) → Lesebuch nt; (to teach reading) → Fibel f; (= foreign language text) → Text m, → Lektüre f; (= anthology) → Sammelband m; a reader in the Classics → eine Klassikersammlung; “first French reader” → „Französisches Lesebuch für Anfänger“

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reader [ˈriːdəʳ] n

a. → lettore/trice
she's a great reader → adora leggere

b. (Brit, ZZZ) (Univ) → (docente m/f) incaricato/a

c. (book) → libro di lettura; (anthology) → antologia

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reader [ˈriːdəʳ] n

a. → lettore/trice
she's a great reader → adora leggere

b. (Brit, ZZZ) (Univ) → (docente m/f) incaricato/a

c. (book) → libro di lettura; (anthology) → antologia

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reader → قارئ čtenář læser Leser αναγνώστης lector lukija lecteur čitač lettore 読者 독자 lezer leser czytelnik leitor читатель läsare ผู้อ่าน okuyucu độc giả 读者