Read

Noun

 * 1) A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
 * 2) * Philip Larkin, Self's the Man
 * And when he finishes supper / Planning to have a read at the evening paper / It's Put a screw in this wall - / He has no time at all...

Derived terms

 * cold read
 * read-out, readout

Verb



 * 1)  To think, believe; to consider (that).
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
 * But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read [...] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake [...].
 * 1)  To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
 * Have you read this book?
 * He doesn’t like to read.
 * 1)  To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
 * He read us a passage from his new book.
 * All right, class, who wants to read next?
 * 1)  To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, etc.
 * I can read his feelings in his face.
 * 1) To consist of certain text.
 * On the door hung a sign that read, "Proper Safety Equipment Required Beyond This Point."
 * 1)  Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
 * Arabic reads right to left.
 * 1)  To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one);.
 * 2) * 1832, John Lemprière et al., Bibliotheca classica, Seventh Edition, W. E. Dean, page 263:
 * In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
 * 1) * 2009, Suzee Vlk et al., The GRE Test for Dummies, Sixth Edition, Wiley Publishing, ISBN 978-0-470-00919-2, page 191:
 * Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.
 * 1)  To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
 * Do you read me?
 * 1)  To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
 * I am reading theology at university.
 * 1)  to recognise (someone) as being transgender
 * Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
 * 1)  to recognise (someone) as being transgender
 * Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.

Synonyms

 * interpret, make out, make sense of, understand
 * read aloud, read out, read out loud, speak
 * hear, receive
 * learn, study

Antonyms

 * pass

Derived terms

 * cold read
 * dictated bt not read
 * lip read/lip-read
 * mind-read
 * read between the lines
 * read dating
 * read for
 * read my lips
 * read-only
 * read out
 * read over


 * read somebody like a book
 * read somebody the riot act
 * read somebody's mind
 * read the green
 * read through
 * read up
 * readable
 * reader
 * reading
 * RTFM
 * sight read
 * WORM/Write Once Read Many
 * well-read

Adverbs for Read
omnivorously; perpetually; insipidly; profoundly; nonchalantly; listlessly; attentively; extensively; drowsily; assiduously; advisedly; monotonously; genially; voraciously; habitually; casually; industriously; stimulatingly; desultorily; promiscuously; surreptitiously; haltingly; sporadically; judiciously.

Thesaurus
absorb, announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one, bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, correct copy, debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, diagnose, dig, digest, drill, elocute, elucubrate, examine, fathom, feel out, fly a kite, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go in for, go over, grasp, grind, harangue, have, have it taped, hold forth, impute to, indicate, interpret, ken, know, learn, look over, lucubrate, major in, mark, master, minor in, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore over, practice, present, probe, proofread, rabble-rouse, rant, read for, read into, read law, realize, recite, record, regard studiously, register, restudy, review, rodomontade, savvy, say, scan, seize, seize the meaning, sense, skim, sound, sound out, specialize in, spiel, spout, study, study for, study to be, swot, take, take in, take it that, take to mean, tub-thump, understand, understand by, vet, wade through

Etymology
From rædan:, from. Cognate with Dutch raden:, German raten:, Swedish råda:. The development from ‘advise, interpret’ to ‘interpret letters, read’ is unique to English. Compare rede:.

Pronunciation

 * Adverb, noun, and verb's present tense
 * Adverb, noun, and verb's present tense


 * Verb's past tense and past participle

Noun

 * Icelandic:


 * Romanian: citire, lecturare; intonare (actor)

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: чытаць
 * Bengali: পড়া
 * Breton: lenn
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: llegir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, vaata
 * Faroese: lesa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კითხვა (kit‘xva)
 * German:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: (merl),  (ān)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Sorani: خوێندن


 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cytaś
 * Macedonian: чита
 * Malayalam: വായിക്കുക, വായന
 * Maltese: qara
 * Mongolian: унших
 * Nahuatl: pōhua
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: lese
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: citi, lectura
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leugh
 * Serbo-Croatian: читати, čitati
 * Slovak: čítať
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bumasa, basahin
 * Telugu: చదువు
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: reidön
 * West Frisian: lêze
 * Yiddish: לייענען


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: irakurri
 * Belarusian: чытаць
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: llegir
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: lesa
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კითხვა (kit‘xva)
 * German:
 * Greek: (diavázo)
 * Hawaiian: heluhelu
 * Hebrew: קרוא (kára’a)
 * Hungarian: felolvas
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: (merl),  (ān)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Sorani: خوێندن
 * Khmer: (merl),  (ān)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Sorani: خوێندن
 * Sorani: خوێندن


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Mongolian: унших
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: lese
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਵਾਚਣਾ (wācṇā)
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leugh
 * Serbo-Croatian: читати, čitati
 * Slovak: čítať
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bumasa, basahin
 * Telugu: వల్లెవేయు
 * Thai: (àan),  (àan òk sĭang)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: לייענען (leyenen)
 * Tagalog: bumasa, basahin
 * Telugu: వల్లెవేయు
 * Thai: (àan),  (àan òk sĭang)
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: לייענען (leyenen)
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: לייענען (leyenen)


 * Catalan: llegir
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * German: lesen können
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Sorani: خوێندن


 * Latin: lego
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: a putea citi, citi, a lectura
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Spanish: decir, poner


 * Catalan: llegir-se
 * Czech: číst se
 * Dutch: gelezen worden
 * French:
 * German: gelesen werden


 * Italian:
 * Latin: legor
 * Polish: być czytany
 * Romanian: a fi citit, a fi lecturat
 * Spanish: leerse


 * Catalan: sentir
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: kuulma
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Norwegian:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:, ,


 * Catalan: estudiar
 * Estonian:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Latin:
 * Malayalam: പഠിക്കുക


 * Nahuatl: machtia
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : moñe'ẽ
 * : lektar
 * : membaca
 * : leger
 * :, 독서하다
 * : czytać, przeczytać, odczytać
 * : citi
 * : đọc
 * : darllen
 * : לײענען (leyenen) (l)

Anagrams

 * DARE, dare, dear, 'eard, rade

Adjective

 * 1) red

Etymology
, from.

Germanic cognates: Old Saxon rod: (Dutch rood:), Old High German rot: (German rot:), Old Norse rauðr: (Icelandic rauður:, Swedish röd:), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃:.

Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός:, Latin ruber:, Old Irish rúad:, Lithuanian raũdas:, Russian рудой:.

Adjective

 * 1) red

Etymology
, from.