1. reader(n = noun.person) Array - a person who enjoys reading; Array
is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
has particulars: bookworm
Derived forms verb read1, verb read3, noun readership1
2. reader(n = noun.person) subscriber - someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication; Array
is a kind of client, customer
3. reader(n = noun.person) Array - a person who can read; a literate person; Array
is a kind of literate, literate person
has particulars: decipherer, map-reader, skimmer
Derived forms verb read1, verb read3, noun readership1
4. reader(n = noun.person) referee, reviewer - someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication; Array
is a kind of critic
has particulars: scanner
5. reader(n = noun.person) proofreader - someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections; Array
is a kind of pressman, printer
6. reader(n = noun.person) lector - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church; Array
is a kind of clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend, holy order, order
7. reader(n = noun.person) lector, lecturer - a public lecturer at certain universities; Array
is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
8. reader(n = noun.communication) Array - one of a series of texts for students learning to read; Array
is a kind of school text, schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook
has particulars: mcguffey eclectic readers
1. One who reads. [1913 Webster]
2. One who reads much; one who is studious. [1913 Webster]
3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book. [1913 Webster]
reader, n.
1 a person who reads or is reading.
2 a book of extracts for learning, esp. a language.
3 a device for producing an image that can be read from microfilm etc.
4 Brit. a university lecturer of the highest grade below professor.
5 a publisher's employee who reports on submitted manuscripts.
6 a printer's proof-corrector.
7 a person appointed to read aloud, esp. parts of a service in a church.
8 a person entitled to use a particular library.
Etymology:
OE (as READ)
N printing, block printing, type-printing, plate printing, (engraving), the press, composition, print, letterpress, text, context, note, page, column, typography, stereotype, electrotype, aprotype, type, black letter, font, fount, pi, pie, capitals, brevier, bourgeois, pica boldface, capitals, caps, catchword, composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick, italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype, lower case, upper case, make-up, matrix, matter, monotype, 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work, reglet, roman, running head, running title, scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay, folio, copy, impression, pull, proof, revise, author's proof, galley proof, press proof, press revise, printer, compositor, reader, printer's devil copyholder, printed, in type, typographical, solid in galleys.
N clergy, clericals, ministry, priesthood, presbytery, the cloth, the desk, clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, churchman, priest, presbyter, hierophant, pastor, shepherd, minister, father, father in Christ, padre, abbe, cure, patriarch, reverend, black coat, confessor, dignitaries of the church, ecclesiarch, hierarch, ebdomarius, eminence, reverence, elder, primate, metropolitan, archbishop, bishop, prelate, diocesan, suffragan, dean, subdean, archdeacon, prebendary, canon, rural dean, rector, parson, vicar, perpetual curate, residentiary, beneficiary, incumbent, chaplain, curate, deacon, deaconess, preacher, reader, lecturer, capitular, missionary, propagandist, Jesuit, revivalist, field preacher, churchwarden, sidesman, clerk, precentor, choir, almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan, acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy, chorister, Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal, ancient flamen, flamen, confessor, penitentiary, spiritual director, cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman, mendicant, pilgrim, palmer, canon regular, canon secular, Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites, Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite, Augustinian, Gilbertine, Austin Friars, Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars, Bonhomme, Carthusian, Benedictine, Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine, Templar, Hospitaler, Bernardine, Lorettine, pillarist, stylite, abbess, prioress, canoness, religieuse, nun, novice, postulant, prophet, priest, high priest, Levite, Rabbi, Rabbin, Rebbe, scribe, mullah, muezzin, ayatollah, ulema, imaum, imam, sheik, sufi, kahin, kassis, mufti, hadji, dervish, fakir, faquir, brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi, druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer, the Reverend, the very Reverend, the Right Reverend, ordained, in orders, called to the ministry.
N teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don, governor, bear leader, governess, duenna, disciplinarian, professor, lecturer, reader, prelector, prolocutor, preacher, chalk talker, khoja, pastor, schoolmaster, dominie, usher, pedagogue, abecedarian, schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher, expositor, preceptor, guide, guru, mentor, pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi, example, professorship, tutelage, professorial, qui doet discet.
blind reader, lay reader, lip reader, mind reader, news reader