reader
pronunciation
How to pronounce reader in British English:
UK [ˈriːdə(r)]
How to pronounce reader in American English:
US [ˈriːdər]
-
- Noun:
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication
- a person who can read; a literate person
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- a public lecturer at certain universities
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
Word Origin
- reader (n.)
- Old English rædere "person who reads aloud to others; lector; scholar; diviner, interpreter," agent noun from rædan (see read (v.)). Compare Dutch rader "adviser," Old High German ratari "counselor." Old English fem. form was rædistre.
Antonym
Example
- 1. A reader today can only imagine crawford 's agony .
- 2. I use netnewswire as my rss feed reader .
- 3. Why should the average reader trust it ?
- 4. Some of these differences lie with the reader .
- 5. Yet the reader senses he feels pessimistic .