reader

noun readers

1. A person who reads. an early reader, a talented reader
2. A person who reads a publication. 10,000 weekly readers
3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
4. A proofreader.

   Similar: proofreader, printer's reader

5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits. They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.

   Similar: publisher's reader, first reader

6. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language. "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."
7. UK A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
8. Any device that reads something. a card reader, a microfilm reader
9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language. Appletons’ School Readers
11. A literary anthology. 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.
12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
13. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

    Similar: reading notice

14. in plural Reading glasses.
15. in plural, slang Marked playing cards used by cheaters. LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.
16. obsolete, slang A wallet or pocketbook. […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […]
17. At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.

Opposite: nonreader

noun Readers

1. alternative Alternative form of reader (“a lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service”).

proper noun

1. A surname
2. A census-designated place in Nevada County and Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Western Mound Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.
4. A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, named after the Reader Run creek.