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READER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of a series of texts for students learning to read
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
school text; schoolbook; text; text edition; textbook (a book prepared for use in schools or colleges)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):
McGuffey Eclectic Readers (readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A public lecturer at certain universities
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
Synonyms:
lector; reader
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind 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)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
Synonyms:
proofreader; reader
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A person who enjoys reading
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind 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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):
bookworm (someone who spends a great deal of time reading)
Derivation:
read (interpret something that is written or printed)
read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed)
readership (the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.))
Sense 6
Meaning:
A person who can read; a literate person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
literate; literate person (a person who can read and write)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):
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)
Derivation:
read (interpret something that is written or printed)
read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed)
readership (the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.))
Sense 7
Meaning:
Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
critic (anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reader"):
scanner (someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
Synonyms:
reader; subscriber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("reader" is a kind of...):
client; customer (someone who pays for goods or services)
Context examples:
Any girl reader who has suffered like afflictions will sympathize with poor Amy and wish her well through her task.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Captain Harville was no reader; but he had contrived excellent accommodations, and fashioned very pretty shelves, for a tolerable collection of well-bound volumes, the property of Captain Benwick.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Yet the fact remains that the reader, who was a fine, robust old man, was knocked clean down by it as if it had been the butt end of a pistol.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Many of my readers may retain some recollection of what was called at the time “The Cornish Horror,” though a most imperfect account of the matter reached the London press.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Although their intention was to preserve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with scholarly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Now, I did not like this, reader.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Those readers born January 10-19 will have more tutoring from Saturn in 2020, but by year’s end, December 2020, you will be finished with Saturn for the next three decades.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The other vegetables are in the same proportion; but this I leave to the reader’s imagination.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
