reader

[Read·er]

A person who reads, whether they love to read or simply are able to read, is a reader. If you're a fan of a particular author, you're also one of her readers.

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One who reads.

Noun
one of a series of texts for students learning to read

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a public lecturer at certain universities

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someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church

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someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections

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a person who enjoys reading

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Noun
a person who can read; a literate person

Noun
someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Noun
someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication


n.
One who reads.

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One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.

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One who reads lectures on scientific subjects.

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A proof reader.

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One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.

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One who reads much; one who is studious.

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A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.


Reader

Read"er , n. [AS. r&aemac;dere.] 1. One who reads. Specifically: (a) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. (b) (University of Oxford, Eng.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. (c) A proof reader. (d) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit. 2. One who reads much; one who is studious. 3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.

One who reads.

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Usage Examples

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

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