GeezerVison

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹi.dɚ/
(UK)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.də/
- (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiː.dɐ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: read‧er

Noun

reader (plural readers)

A person who reads.
an early reader, a talented reader
A person who reads a publication.
10,000 weekly readers
- 2018 July 13, Jaime Marie Davis, “How photographers have captured skateboarding through generations”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 18 March 2025:
  In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.”
A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
A proofreader.
Synonyms: proofreader, printer's reader
A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
Synonyms: publisher's reader, first reader
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VIII, in Capricornia‎^[2], page 123:
  They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.
A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 83–84:
  "I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately."
(chiefly UK) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
Any device that reads something.
a card reader, a microfilm reader
- 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2023:
  The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures.
- 2023 December 1, Da Lin, “Privacy advocates accuse Kaiser of not following state law on license plate readers”, in CBS News‎^[4], archived from the original on 22 February 2024:
  A quick search on Kaiser's website, there was nothing that talked about plate readers or a usage policy.
A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
An elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language.
Appletons’ School Readers
- 1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb Bingham, edited by David W. Blight, The Columbian Orator, Bicentennial Edition (1997 republishing), New York University Press, →ISBN:
  [Editor David W. Blight said:] In 1795, after producing his own geography textbook, modeled on Jedidiah Morse’s famous Geography (1784), Bingham resigned as a teacher in the Boston schools, opened a bookstore on Cornhill Street in Boston, and devoted himself to producing schoolbooks. In Boston in 1797, he published the first of approximately 23 editions of The Columbian Orator. By the first two decades of the nineteenth century, in vast stretches of rural America, including the South, Bingham’s readers joined the Bible and an occasional almanac as the only books in many homesteads. […] Finally, Bingham saw the early American republic as a new political beginning for humankind, and his more than one million schoolbooks sold across the land were designed to produce republican citizens. The Columbian Orator was an elocution manual as well as a reader for school children in the new republic.
A literary anthology.
- 1981 December 1, Thomas Hopkinson, “Streetboy Dreams; The Boy Harlequin and Other Stories (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 10:
  A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^[sic] and Other Stories.
A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
(advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
Synonym: reading notice
(in the plural) Reading glasses.
(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations, Gambling and Organized Crime, Parts 1, 2, 3. 87-1, page 286:
  LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
- 1991, John Bowyer Bell, Barton Whaley, Cheating and Deception, page 185:
  Of the 150,000,000 decks of cards sold each year in America, Scarne estimates that 1 percent get marked at some point. Yet, as he discovered in his 1972 gambling survey, only 2 percent of average players have any idea of how to detect these "readers."
(obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
  […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.