1 a person who reads, especially one who reads a lot or in a particular way:
an avid reader of science fiction * a fast / slow reader * The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.
2 a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine, etc:
readers' letters * Are you a 'Times' reader?
3 an easy book that is intended to help people learn to read their own or a foreign language:
a series of graded English readers
4 (usually Reader) a senior teacher at a British university just below the rank of a PROFESSOR:
She is Reader in Music at Edinburgh.
5 (computing) an electronic device that reads data stored in one form and changes it into another form so that a computer can perform operations on it
6 (technical) a machine that produces on a screen a large image of a text stored on a MICROFICHE or MICROFILM
seealsoMIND-READER, NEWSREADER
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is reader a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reader is tagged as noun.
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