Reader

Noun

 * 1) A person who reads a publication.
 * 2) A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
 * 3) A proofreader.
 * 4)  A university lecturer below a professor.
 * 5) A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
 * 6) A literary anthology.
 * 7) A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
 * 8) A device such as a card reader or microfilm reader.
 * 9) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

Derived terms

 * early reader

Adjectives for Reader
eager; intelligent; constant; everyday; enthusiastic; serious; gentle; phenomenal; browsing; sagacious; assiduous; casual; insatiable; captious; extensive; persistent; dilettante; confused; unsuspecting; continental; absorbed; negligent; omnivorous; copy; discriminating; stumbling; uncomprehending; fastidious; indefatigable; industrious; prudish; voracious; ponderous; innocent; voluminous; ardent; attentive; arid; rapid; faulty; lifelong.

Verbs for Reader
absorb—; acquaint—; amuse—; divert—; edify—; enlighten—; entertain—; guide—; inform—; instruct—; lay before—; outrage —; persuade—; tickle—; train—; —appreciates; —browses; —comprehends; —cons;—consumes; —criticizes;  —delights; — delves into; —dips into; —discerns; —en¬joys; —gleans; —imbibes; —masters; — peruses; —plunges into; —pores over; — refers to; —scans; —thumbs; —wades through; —apprehends.

Thesaurus
Bible clerk, Bible reader, Boanerges, Flexowriter typewriter, Teleplotter, abecedarium, abecedary, achromatic lens, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, alphabet book, alphabetical printer, anagnost, assistant, assistant professor, associate, associate professor, astigmatic lens, battledore, beadle, bedral, burning glass, camera, capitular, capitulary, casebook, chalk talker, choir chaplain, churchwarden, city editor, clerk, coated lens, columnist, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, copy chief, copy editor, copyholder, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, deacon, deaconess, diaconus, diaskeuast, digital graph plotter, discourser, diseur, diseuse, doorkeeper, editor, editorial writer, elder, elderman, elocutioner, elocutionist, emeritus, exercise book, exorcist, exorcista, expositor, expounder, eyeglass, eyepiece, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glass, gradus, grammar, hand lens, hard copy, holy orders, homilist, hornbook, improvisator, improvvisatore, instructor, interviewer, journalist, lay elder, lay reader, leader writer, lector, lecturer, leg man, lens, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, magnifier, magnifying glass, major orders, managing editor, manual, manual of instruction, meniscus, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, minor orders, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, ostiarius, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, parish clerk, praelector, preacher, precentor, presbyter, pressman, priest, primer, printout, prism, professor, professor emeritus, proofreader, publicist, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, punch cards, punched tape, reading glass, readout, recitationist, reciter, recorder, relay register, reporter, retired professor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, schoolbook, sermoner, sermonist, sermonizer, sexton, shames, sidesman, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, speller, spelling book, sports editor, subdeacon, subdiaconus, subeditor, succentor, suisse, t, tape reader, teaching elder, telephoto lens, teletypewriter, text, thurifer, toric lens, tutor, varifocal lens, verger, vergeress, visiting professor, war correspondent, workbook, zoom lens

Translations

 * Arabic: قارئ, قارئة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * French:, lectrice
 * German:, Leserin
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 読者,
 * Polish: ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, читательница
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: читатељ, читалац, читатељица
 * Roman: čitatelj, čitalac, čitateljica
 * Spanish:, lectora
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: darllenydd


 * : leitor, leitora (1)

Anagrams

 * dearer
 * reared
 * reread