reader (n.)

  1. a person who enjoys reading

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

    [ Syn: subscriber ]

  3. a person who can read; a literate person

  4. someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication

    [ Syn: reviewer , referee ]

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

    [ Syn: proofreader ]

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

    [ Syn: lector , lector ]

  7. a public lecturer at certain universities

    [ Syn: lector , lecturer ]

  8. one of a series of texts for students learning to read

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