What does reader mean?
Definitions for reader
ˈri dərread·er
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word reader.
Princeton's WordNet
reader(noun)
a person who enjoys reading
subscriber, reader(noun)
someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
reader(noun)
a person who can read; a literate person
reviewer, referee, reader(noun)
someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
proofreader, reader(noun)
someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
lector, reader(noun)
someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
lector, lecturer, reader(noun)
a public lecturer at certain universities
reader(noun)
one of a series of texts for students learning to read
Wiktionary
reader(Noun)
A person who reads a publication.
reader(Noun)
A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
reader(Noun)
A proofreader.
reader(Noun)
A university lecturer below a professor.
reader(Noun)
Any device that reads something.
a card reader, a microfilm reader
reader(Noun)
A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
reader(Noun)
A literary anthology.
reader(Noun)
A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
reader(Noun)
A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
Reader(Noun)
A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead most services in the Anglican Church.
Webster Dictionary
Reader(noun)
one who reads
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
one whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
one who reads lectures on scientific subjects
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
a proof reader
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
one who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
one who reads much; one who is studious
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Reader(noun)
a book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book
Etymology: [AS. rdere.]
Freebase
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 Contribution
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
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'reader' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2437
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'reader' in Nouns Frequency: #540
Anagrams for reader »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of reader in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of reader in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of reader in a Sentence
I go to the automatic reader and if it says not a winner, there’s a trash receptacle there and I drop it in.
Poems are comprised of everyday material expertly arranged in ways that require a reader's time and reflection, but the reward is great: a memorable insight into our humanity, a line that perfectly encapsulates a moment or a truth we want to remember, an experience with language that provokes new ideas and deeper understanding.
There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper'
You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.
We are going to follow where the facts lead us, we're not going to make any assumptions. I'm not a mind reader.
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- قارئة, قارئArabic
- чыта́чка, чыта́чBelarusian
- lennerBreton
- lectorCatalan, Valencian
- čtenářCzech
- darllenyddWelsh
- læserDanish
- Leserin, LeserGerman
- αναγνώστηςGreek
- legantoEsperanto
- lector, lectoraSpanish
- irakurleBasque
- lesariFaroese
- lectrice, lecteurFrench
- léitheoirIrish
- leughadairScottish Gaelic
- पाठकHindi
- lesandiIcelandic
- lettrice, lettoreItalian
- 読者, リーダーJapanese
- lezerDutch
- czytelnik, czytelniczkaPolish
- leitorPortuguese
- читатель, читательницаRussian
- čitatèljica, чѝталац, читатѐљица, чѝтатељ, čìtatelj, čìtalacSerbo-Croatian
- čitateľSlovak
- läsareSwedish
- чита́чUkrainian
- 读者Chinese
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