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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: reader

1
 n
a person who can read; a literate person
2
 n
someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: reader
1

n a person who can read; a literate person

Types:
decipherer
a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text
map-reader
a person who can read maps
skimmer
a rapid superficial reader
Type of:
literate, literate person
a person who can read and write

n a person who enjoys reading

Types:
bookworm
someone who spends a great deal of time reading
Type of:
bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

n someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

Synonyms:
subscriber
Type of:
client, customer
someone who pays for goods or services

n someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

Synonyms:
referee, reviewer
Types:
scanner
someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
Type of:
critic
anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something

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

Synonyms:
proofreader
Type of:
pressman, printer
someone whose occupation is printing

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

Types:
McGuffey Eclectic Readers
readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages
Type of:
school text, schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook
a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
2

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

Synonyms:
lector
Type of:
clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend
a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church
Holy Order, Order
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy

n a public lecturer at certain universities

Synonyms:
lector, lecturer
Type of:
educator, pedagog, pedagogue
someone who educates young people
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