reader

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-Germanic *rēdārijaz, equivalent to read +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹidɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdə/

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• Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)

reader (plural readers)

1. A person who reads a publication.
2. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
3. A proofreader.
4. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 123,

     They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.

5. (chiefly Britain) A university lecturer below a professor.
6. Any device that reads something.

   a card reader, a microfilm reader

7. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
8. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
9. A literary anthology.
10. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
11. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

• early reader

• dearer, reared, reread