Definitions for reader
ˈri dərread·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. readernoun

   a person who enjoys reading

2. subscriber, readernoun

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

3. readernoun

   a person who can read; a literate person

4. reviewer, referee, readernoun

   someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

5. proofreader, readernoun

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

6. lector, readernoun

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

7. lector, lecturer, readernoun

   a public lecturer at certain universities

8. readernoun

   one of a series of texts for students learning to read

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. readernoun

   A person who reads a publication.

2. readernoun

   A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.

3. readernoun

   A proofreader.

4. readernoun

   A university lecturer below a professor.

5. readernoun

   Any device that reads something.

   a card reader, a microfilm reader

6. readernoun

   A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.

7. readernoun

   A literary anthology.

8. readernoun

   A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.

9. readernoun

   A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

10. Readernoun

    A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead most services in the Anglican Church.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Readernoun

   Etymology: from read.

   1. One that peruses any thing written.

   As we must take the care that our words and sense be clear, so if the obscurity happen through the hearers or readers want of understanding, I am not to answer for them. Ben Jonson.

   2. One studious in books.

   Basiris’ altars and the dire decrees
   Of hard Eurestheus, ev’ry reader sees. Dryden.

   3. One whose office is to read prayers in churches.

   He got into orders, and became a reader in a parish church at twenty pounds a year. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. reader

   A reader is a person who reads, comprehends, and interprets written or printed materials such as books, articles, newspapers, or digital content. It can also refer to a device or software used to decode or interpret specific symbols, information, or code from a particular medium.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Readernoun

   one who reads

2. Readernoun

   one whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church

3. Readernoun

   one who reads lectures on scientific subjects

4. Readernoun

   a proof reader

5. Readernoun

   one who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit

6. Readernoun

   one who reads much; one who is studious

7. Readernoun

   a book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book

8. Etymology: [AS. rdere.]

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Reader

   The title of reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship. It is an academic rank above senior lecturer, recognising a distinguished record of original research at professorial level. In the British ranking, for some universities a reader could be seen as a professor without a chair, similar to the distinction between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities, professor and chaired professor in Hong Kong and professor B and chaired professor in Ireland. Both readers and professors in the UK would correspond to professors in the US. The promotion criteria applied to a readership in the United Kingdom are similar to those applied to a professorship: advancing from senior lecturer to reader requires evidence of a distinguished record of original research as well as a significant record of teaching excellence and service to the university. An incompatibility of ranking systems between different countries makes the position of reader difficult to place outside the context of the United Kingdom. A similar title used in some countries, for instance in Sweden, is docent, which is officially translated in English as reader.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. reader

   A type of machine, equipment or device that can read data and other information and function accurately to the design and purpose.

   Travel card systems have travel card readers within the system.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. READER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Reader is ranked #9780 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Reader surname appeared 3,313 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Reader.
   
   87.9% or 2,913 total occurrences were White.
   7.1% or 237 total occurrences were Black.
   1.9% or 64 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.6% or 56 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.7% or 24 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 19 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Holy Order
   • Clergyman
   • Critic
   • Customer
   • Educator
   • Literate
   • Printer
   • Scholar
   • Text

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reader' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2437

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'reader' in Nouns Frequency: #540

Anagrams for reader »

1. dearer

2. reared

3. reread

4. redare

How to pronounce reader?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say reader in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of reader in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of reader in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of reader in a Sentence

1. Robert Louis Stephenson:

   The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

2. Philip Nel:

   That makes the book about the reader and puts the reader in the position of the character, it's a motivator. See yourself as the character; take action.

3. Mark Twain:

   I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

4. David Rosengarten:

   Every issue has a lead story, we take one subject and fully explore it, and it’s always pitched to the home reader all over the U.S..

5. Chiu Long:

   I buy one or two Apple products every time they release something new, i like to run, so the heart rate reader is progress.

Popularity rank by frequency of use