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Reader

noun

A person who enjoys reading.

Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication. Synonym: subscriber.

A person who can read; a literate person.

Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. Synonyms: referee, reviewer.

Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections. Synonym: proofreader.

Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. Synonym: lector.

A public lecturer at certain universities. Synonyms: lector, lecturer.

One of a series of texts for students learning to read.

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"Reader" Quotes from Famous Books

... 'Intellectual Observer' for July, 1867, to which magazine the reader is referred for full details of Mr. Howlett's method of observation, and for illustrations of the appliances he made use of, and ...

— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor

... accompanied by a heavy ceaseless fall of snow; and, well secured as the ship was both by her weight and by her anchors, she fairly trembled at times with the violence of the blast. Had she been dependent only upon her anchors and her own unassisted weight—which the reader will remember was very trifling notwithstanding her immense dimensions—she would infallibly have been whirled away like a bubble upon the wings of the gale. The highly-compressed air, however, held her ...

— The Log of the Flying Fish - A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure • Harry Collingwood

... refer to the Burnet MS. Harl. 6584, I wish the reader to understand that the MS. contains something which is not to be found ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... men will fetch you a cab," said the old man; "for you cannot carry these four volumes under your arm. That is my book; give it to your reader; he may keep it the whole of the coming week. I shall stay at least that time in this quarter; for I cannot leave my daughter in such total abandonment. I trust my grandson; he can take care of our rooms; especially if you keep an eye on him. If I were what I once was I would ask ...

— The Brotherhood of Consolation • Honore de Balzac

... wonder at finding her art no longer regarded as a sin, put the slate into the desk, and cheerfully resumed the study of the boundaries and chief products of North Carolina, while Miss Reade returned to the hearing of the third-reader class. ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

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