lecteur

Definitions of lecteur
  1. noun
    a person who can read; a literate person
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    type of:
    lettré
    a person who can read and write
  2. noun
    someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
    synonyms: abonné
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    type of:
    client
    someone who pays for goods or services
  3. noun
    a public lecturer at certain universities
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    type of:
    pédagogue, éducateur
    someone who educates young people
  4. noun
    a person who enjoys reading
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    types:
    bouquineur
    someone who spends a great deal of time reading
    type of:
    femme de science, homme de science, savant
    a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
  5. noun
    an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
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    type of:
    transducteur électro-accoustique
    a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa
  6. noun
    one of a series of texts for students learning to read
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    type of:
    livre d'étude, livre de classe, livre scolaire, manuel, manuel scolaire
    a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
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